The riverside people in the Marajó archipelago and the struggle for permanence in the traditionally inhabited territory

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Eliane Miranda
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Caetano, Vivianne da Silva Nunes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: INTERthesis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/1807-1384.2020.e70154

The Marajó archipelago since colonization has been the stage of intense and successive disputes between different groups for the occupation and enjoyment of the land and natural riches. In this study, we highlight the struggle of the riverside people, a social group of the Mapuá River, municipality of Breves, Marajó, Pará, for access, use and permanence in the traditionally inhabited territory. In conflict with the wood businessmen, the riverside people, threatened to be expelled, requested from the federal government the creation of an Extractive Reserve, Resex/Mapuá, as a condition to stay in their territory. Following the assumptions of qualitative research, we searched about the aspects of this conflict, as well as discuss about the Resex and the use of territory in the interface with the territorial policy of the State. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and document analysis. We have as reference the socio-anthropological field in an interdisciplinary perspective we analyze the empirical data, which lead us to show that Resex-Mapuá, for the riverside people, constitutes a political tactic of affirmation and reaffirmation of the right to stay in the territory that traditionally inhabit and sew their way of life.