Kaingang territories and territorialities: the postconquest reivention of spaces and forms of survival

• Autor(a) principal: Tommasino, Kimiye
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Kurtz de Almeida, Ledson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/20694
• topic: Kaingang territories; Kaingang territorialities; Indigenist politics; Urban villages; Territórios kaingang; Territorialidades kaingang; Políticas indigenistas; Aldeias nas cidades

This article explicates the ways in which, postconquest, the Kaingang have faced decisive situations that have forced them to seek new forms of survival in the lands demarcated by the government. These lands, which have drastically diminished in size over the second half of the twentieth century, were stripped of the natural resources that guaranteed the Kaingang’s survival. Analysis of this process revealed that the Kaingang were obliged to construct a new time (uri), as opposed to the old time (vãsy). The Kaingang maintained their territorialities according to their customary ways, despite their being in permanent conflict with the prescribed codes. As such, the territorialisation movement of the Kaingang is transposed upon the territorialities of a capitalist society founded on private property.