Escribir desde y sobre los márgenes. Maximiano José Roberto y las figuras femeninas de la leyenda de Yuruparí (Amazonia brasileña, finales del siglo XIX)

This article focuses on the work of Maximiano José Roberto, a descendant of a prestigious Tariana lineage, a collaborator of the academic elite of Manaus and an unknown pioneer of Amazonian anthropology. His main work, the legend of Yuruparí, is an important document for the study of the history of the Upper Rio Negro region in the nineteenth century. Pervasive in the narrative, the question of the status of women in indigenous societies is presented under the form of a bloody struggle. However, alongside the ruthless repression of women's fights against the establishment of a hegemonic male power, a form of gender violence hitherto absent from the mythologies of the Upper Río Negro appears: the symbolic confinement of indigenous women. Our hypothesis is that this transformation of gender violence results from the encounter of Maximiano José Roberto's literary and political project with the expectations and assumptions of the male and colonial intellectual elite of the Brazilian Amazon at the end of the nineteenth century. Therefore, the legend reflects through the work of Roberto the profound transformations of Brazilian national society in its relationship with indigenous communities.