Da aldeia para o Estado: os caminhos do empoderamento e o papel das lideranças Kaingang na conjuntura do movimento indígena

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Antonio Cavalcante de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3513
• topic: Empoderamento; Liderança; Movimento indígena; Empowerment; Indigenous movement; Leadership; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

The present thesis on indigenous Kaingang leaders addresses interfaces and important aspects of the empowerment category within the indigenous movement in Southern Brazil. Therefore, the focus of the analysis was the traditional leaders and emerging leaders, who are externally engaged in different political spheres of the indigenous movement regionally, nationally and internationally. Thus, this study sought to address key political leaders working in the field of mediation that begins, particularly in active participations from the villages, with the traditional authorities (chiefs), going through institutions and spheres of dispute within the nation-state. At the end, the survey indicates that, even though there was strengthening, hence, the empowerment of indigenous leaders in many different arenas of dispute, it is not yet sufficiently important for the rupture of the Indian policy and the conquest of indigenous autonomy and emancipation