Perspectivas feministas na Amazônia indígena

This introduction draws together the six papers compiled in this special issue and highlights prominent themes from at the Workshop, Feminist Perspectives in Indigenous Amazonia, held in June 2021. What do anthropologists and Indigenous women in Amazonia need from feminist epistemology today? How are experienced and emerging scholars reconciling perspectives centred on the alterity of Indigenous Amazonian kinship systems and cosmologies, which have been so extraordinarily productive and creative for Amazonianists and for broader anthropology, in this era when colonial and postcolonial violence are at the forefront of the political agendas and everyday experiences of many Indigenous women? Women are facing oil companies and organizing in response to new forms of misogyny and exclusion (e.g., from state wealth, education, and formal decision-making). They are also grasping new opportunities conferred by mobility, by the reconfiguration of masculine roles, and by access to higher education. This introduction presents some of the ways that anthropologists and Indigenous women are figuring out what a feminist perspective in Indigenous Amazonia might be.