Abstract
This papper aims to intervene in the matter of the southern ‘Cayapó’- wars in the eighteenth century to show how these groups differentially incorporated enemies and their goods into the historical context of contacts. Based on an analysis of documents referring to the region known today as south of Goiás, Triângulo Mineiro and north of São Paulo, the papper dialogues with Anthropology and History and intends to show that, by means of the wars of loot, these indigenous groups put into simultaneous action different symbolic evaluations and political incorporations of their alterities.
Keywords:
Indians in Brazil; Indigenous history; Southern ‘Cayapó’; Identities and aterities