Ethnic emergence: territorialities of memories and the struggle of the Munduruku people of Planalto, Santarém-Pará

Abstract

The present work aims to understand the constructed territorialities and the definitions of the struggle of the Munduruku people, as the existence of collective subjects, which unfolded through the process of ethnic emergence for the resumption and territorialization of their ancestral places, since the beginning of the 21st century, they are the Munduruku who mobilize and delimit and enforce respect for their alleged Territory. In this process, the compression of the construction of territory and territorialities was supported, especially from 1990 onwards, when they began to assert themselves as indigenous peoples of the baixo river Tapajós, in what became known in the anthropological literature as ethnic emergence. The work sought to bring through oral history the voices of indigenous people to understand the occupational process of the territory and understand the relations of disputes. The struggle of the Munduruku people for land-territory is circumscribed not only by the political and economic dimension, but also in what gives meaning to life, to identity and ancestry.