O ritual do Kiki do povo Kaingang: cultura material de um ritual religioso indígena no Brasil Meridional

Kiki Ritual means worshiping Kaingang dead. This indigenous community is natural to Southern and Southeastern Brazil. In pre-colonial times, the ritual was performed on an yearly basis and aimed at giving the dead a good transition to numbe (the world of the dead). However, Kiki was stopped in Brazil after its colonization and impaired by the catechism process indigenous peoples were subjected to. In the 1970s, these peoples readopted the ritual as a way to achieve cultural and identity resistance to non-indigenous practices. The ritual took place for the last time in Conda Native Village, in 2011, and it gave birth to the present ethnoarchaeological analysis, which aims at addressing the centrality and significance of the role played by the material culture in this ritual and in the daily life of Kaingang people.