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The Xetá indigenous people were only contacted in the second half of the 20th century, given the concealment strategies to hide from the colonizers (LIMA, 2018). In the first decades of contact with non-indigenous people, between the late 1940s and early 1960s, more than 70% of the Xetás were killed. However, when repatriated in digital copies by the Paranaense's Museum, the photographs and films produced by Vladimir Kozák between 1960 and 1970, based on a friendship of more than 20 years with the Xetás, have been fundamental in resisting new technologies of the genocide under which such people still find themselves targets (PACHECO, 2018; TUXÁ, 2022). In the present investigation, I propose an audiovisual ethnography about the agencies of these images in the struggle for the demarcation of the Xetá territory and in the transmission of aspects of their culture that were deprived of them by the separation and isolation of the survivors of the first contacts.

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