KWAYTIKINDO : Cosmopolítica e Historiografia Linguística Puri

Abstract

The present study, entitled “Kwaytikindo – Cosmopolitics and Puri Linguistic Historiography,” proposes an analysis of the Puri language as a historiographic field, a political dispositif, and a living archive that expresses the memory and epistemological place of the Puri people. Based on the premise that the linguistic decisions undertaken within the process of revitalizing Kwaytikindo (the Puri language) emerge from the cosmology and social practices of the people themselves, it becomes evident that this process is not limited to a lexical or grammatical recovery. Rather, it constitutes a conscious act of Puri historiographic production—authorial and collective—an essential instance in which ancestral and contemporary trajectories are inscribed. The research rests on the understanding that the Puri language, beyond being a communicative instrument, is an ontological field composed of intrinsically polysemic and cosmopolitical words operating as devices that articulate history, nature, and social relations (human and non-human). The analysis demonstrates that Puri words do not merely name things or beings; they project multiple and interdependent meanings, forming true territories of signification permeated by cosmologies and memories. Within this framework, the study examines the historical path of the terminological attribution of “Puri,” from colonial records and external designations to the meanings mobilized in contemporary academic production and, above all, to the semantic reformulation of this conceptual determination grounded in Puri orality and self-enunciation. This work includes, as an appendix, the current edition of the Kwaytikindo Vocabulary.