OS ESTUDOS CULTURAIS EM OUTRAS MARGENS

IDENTIDADES AFROINDÍGENAS EM “ZONAS DE CONTATO” AMAZÔNICAS

Abstract

Under the rule, and theoretical orientation of Cultural Studies both British and Latin American, and Postcolonial Thought, working especially with the categories of mediations analysis, translations, cultural struggles, identities and local knowledge, the Communication proposes to unveil the building process of one of the Amazonian identities faces, only very recently made visible by new historical research: the afroindigene identities. First we present the analytical tools in the light of the arguments that support our perspective for interpreting the regional social reality. Then we revisit the trajectories of making the PhD thesis in Social History at PUC-SP, defended in June 2009, when we questioned the social conceptions that were built upon the marajoara populations identities, whose adjectives used silenced its ethnic-racial backgrounds. In this enterprise, we follow transits, cultural exchanges and tensions experienced by Indians, colonists and settlers, paying special attention to the plots crafted by natives and diasporics in marajoaras circuit fields and forests, both in colonial times and at the tearing of the contemporary era. The perspective is to make visible, by the cunning and "traces / waste" of memory from the remaining groups of oral traditions, printed in written, oral and visual sources, the consistent exchanges that forged afroindigenes identities, cultures and knowledge at the "contact zones" of the Marajoara Amazon.