Abstract
In Bahia’s caatinga, cosmopolitical diplomacy (paying attention, donating, respecting, negotiating, being warned) is a privileged relationship in cynegetic encounters between Caipora, the “mãe-das-caças” (mother-of-game) and hunters. However, a solitary encounter with Caipora expresses social relationships that imply both a difference and a struggle of perspectives. That is, in the former (difference), a commensality, defined by the seductive and deceiving sounds (“ariar”) that affect the subject (“idear”), is taken as capture by the natives and as familiarization by Caipora, since by eating with it, a person “becomes enchanted”, disappears das vistas (from sight) of humanity as we know it and becomes Caipora; in the latter (struggle), there is a dispute between two subjects as to which occupies the point of view, since the deictic position of the “I” is not pre-given and whosoever is able to frighten the other will accede to it, while that other will become the “you” in this meeting.
Key Words:
Caipora; Caatinga; Becoming-other; Capture; Metaphysics