摘要：This article aims to discuss the relationship between women who live in Kaingang Icatu village, in the state of São Paulo. Their children and the space of the houses are also investigated. This ethnography shows the primacy of labels convivial guided by the logic of non-visitation between people from different houses. Such a scheme of conviviality, which also extends to relationships between adults and children, enables not mystification image indigenous child as a messenger or free from restrictions to certain convivial. It also shows that Indians in the state of São Paulo creatively formulate their actions bringing important issues to the debate of ethnology, far beyond the theories of acculturation and assimilation, which were associated.
