Território, parentesco e panema: a Irmandade de Brasília

Abstract

The dissertation “BRASILIA'S BROTHERHOOD: when knowledge builds a rational use of natural resources”, was carried out in the community of Brasília, located in the municipality of Serrano do Maranhão, region ecologically known as Baixada Maranhense. This research aims to reflect on the process of building the territoriality of the so-called Brasilia territory from the consideration of the knowledge and practices of social agents. The analysis of the construction of territoriality considers kinship relations, the proper categories used to classify the territory and the relations of knowledge and rational use of natural resources. In this construction, there are notions related to the use of natural fields, rivers and forests, associated with protective beings and that control the rational use of natural resources and others that involve political relations, established at the organizational level.