Vengeance and territoriality Tikmũ,ũn

Abstract In this article, I return to the approach made by Carneiro da Cunha and Viveiros de Castro between revenge and temporality to introduce a third element in this dyad, which is territoriality. This will be done based on ethnography dedicated to the Tikmũ,ũn-Maxakali people, seeking to analyze three different perspectives. Firstly, I observe the vindictive dynamics within Tikmũ,ũn sociality. Secondly, I analyze how revenge memories relate to specific places through songs and narratives. Finally, I show how people respond to the context of practices of interethnic violence by activating the language of revenge. In the meantime, I argue that revenge works as a device that stops the possibility of having the right to the life and death of others. Such dynamics enable sociality not to enter the territory of necropolitics seeking to live in another existential territory.