The lost hunter, a Tikuna narrative from the perspective of Rodolfo Kusch

Abstract

The lost hunter is a mythical narrative of the Ticuna people that appears in the middle of an educational investigation and by the hand of an indigenous man named Methuselah. The article states that the narrative is a good example to illustrate the phagocytization of Kusch, a philosophical/anthropological concept according to which the indigenous person is an active agent in the processes of cultural syncretism. In the discourse analysis, an identification of what is symbolic in the myth is made, together with a line that gives meaning to the events that are related. It is concluded that the myth explains how Ticuna sees those who see them, for example tourists, researchers who visit them in their community, and on the other hand it is said that it is a story about how Ticuna sees its relationship with relatives of others Indigenous people.