Anthropology in the Northeast: Indigenous Perspectives

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Anthropology in the Northeast: Indigenous Perspectives


05/06/2022 | 18:00 (Brasilia time) | online event

Participation:
Anari Braz Bonfim (PPGAS/MN-UFRJ)
Chirley Pankará (PPGAS/USP)
Wilke Torres Melo (NEPE/UFPE)

Mediation:
Idjahure Kadiwel (COPAF e PPGAS/USP)

Link to Broadcast:
https://youtu.be/cjtImzRaXWs

In confluence with activities related to Indigenous April throughout the country, the Friday of the Month, with the support of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and COPAF, the Permanent Commission for Affirmative Actions of PPGAS/USP, begins the year 2022 with a special table, composed entirely of anthropologists and indigenous anthropologists from the Northeast. Despite its marginalization, the ethnology of the Northeast has historically contributed with fundamental themes to the broadening of the more general agenda of anthropology, such as, notably, through questions about ethnic identity and territorialization processes.
It is in this region that the concept called ethnogenesis was consolidated, reformulated in a more up-to-date perspective by its protagonists through self-identification, a landmark of the affirmation of indigenous rights, fundamental for the legitimacy of land claims. It is also in the Northeast where the political and territorial strategy of repossessions emerged, currently disseminated among indigenous peoples throughout Brazil, in reparation for situations of colonial dispossession and expropriation. Also noteworthy are conceptual issues around the mixture as a distinctive factor of the groups in the region; the significant interethnic communication and historical and cultural affinities between these peoples; as well as the importance of their leadership in the claims and struggles for land, which today are faced with a growing criminalization of indigenous movements. The growing number of researches that have expanded such themes and theoretical perspectives is highlighted, with emphasis on the emerging production of anthropologists and indigenous anthropologists, whose research and perspectives will be at the center of this Friday of the Month.