摘要：Adopting the interpretative anthropology approach, the text narrates the
experience of an anthropologist-writer in contact with the universe of Brazilian indigenous
literature and poetry, which inspired her to conception of the I Recital of the Indigenous
Poetics of the Casa das Rosas, as an event to assemble Indians, indigenous and indianist
writers from different backgrounds, both classic and contemporary. It discusses the issue of the
social function of poetry & prose and its independence from cultural context and concludes for
talking of “poetics”, because the event will not host on one only poetic, western Aristotelean
poetic, but the diversity that inhabits oral history and indigenous rituals, whether elaborated or
not, which have in common the inventiveness and enchantment with words and their
possibilities.
