Entre ritos e invasões: a luta do povo indígena Tentehar/Guajajara pelo território

Abstract

This dissertation work is the result of a qualitative research that aims to ethnographically analyze the elements of struggle used by the indigenous people of the Tentehar/Guajajara ethnic group who inhabit the Araribóia Indigenous Land, in the municipality of Amarante - MA, for the maintenance of the territory, as well as to understand the political dimension of the rites of passage, in this case, the ritual of the Girl Young Woman Party, as this ritual is used by the Tentehar/Guajajara as an element of identity self-affirmation and demarcation of their ethnic boundaries. In this work we intend to problematize about the attacks and invasions to which this ethnic group suffers from the State and from the non-indigenous society within its territory already demarcated since the 1990s