Wari': conversion, cultural identity and territorial markers in the Terra Indígena Igarapé Laje in Rondônia State

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Adnilson de Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Santana, Francisco Marcolino, Silva, Josué da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ateliê Geográfico
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/atelie/article/view/58456

The present article analyzes evangelical conversion performed by the New Tribes Missions of Brazil – MNTB at the Laje Velho Village, which have, for about fifty years, dedicated themselves to convert the Wari' indigenous people to Christianity. Taking into account the Wari’ symbolic contribution to nature, including it’s cultural identity, their ancestral experiences and cosmogony; we relate it to the structural and structuring territorial markers, so as to identify and distinguish which actions are considered as originating in the collectivity and which actions are characteristic of the involving society. The article is the result of fieldwork and interviews conducted with the Wari’ people in the Terra Indígena Igarapé Laje, located between the municipalities of Guajará-Mirim and Nova Mamoré in Rondônia State. It presents the perceptions and respective analyses based on methodological approaches built through bibliographic references, in which phenomenology is the main theoretical basis for analyzing the problem. KEYWORDS: Evangelical Conversion. Cultural identity. Territorial Markers. Wari’