Canaimé, a personificação do mal

Abstract

The Amazon region is as vast literature of stage and curiosity about indigenous issues, among them, Kanaime arouses attention. This dissertation part of a literature search from the analysis of narratives – in avaliable material, particular the extracted contents of Panton Pia Project – Indigenous Oral narrative and Dark Shamans. Discusses the social importance of myth in this Amerindian culture, the relationship between myths, narrative as the shamanic practices. The approach of controversial affairs, external interference and the vision of violence associated with Kanaime under different aspects allow a different look, charm, poetry and fear.