Os Potiguara da Baía da Traição e Montea-Mór: história, etnicidade e cultura

• Ano de defesa: 2005
• Autor(a) principal: Palitot, Estevao Martins
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Sociologia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Índios Potiguara; Situações históricas; Etnicidade; Cultura; Potiguara Indians; Historical Situations; Ethnicity; Culture; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/14651

This thesis concerns to an interpretation of the historical situations lived by the Potiguara Indian people, inhabitant of the north cost of Paraíba-Brazil. The elaboration of ethnic boundaries, the cultural production, the land occupation processes and the social organization are analyzed according to the constitution of an inter-social field determined by the historical presence of several agencies, generally groups of agro industries. industrials and the government that work to implant Indian policy. Our reflection is concentrated on the relational aspect and on interaction among the Potiguara Indians and the local society. In this way, we studied how the society of Paraíba considers the Indians. in order to draw a historical line of their social organization. Finally, we show how the lndians represent their ethnic and cultural specification to themselves and to the local society through such processes.