A Etnia e a Terra Notas para uma etnologia dos índios Arara (Aripuanã - MT)

This is a collection of articles and interviews about the Arara Indians who live in the city of Aripuanã, northwest of the State of Mato Grosso.Here, it is mainly a matter of clearing up a certain question that, as long as I know them, they constantly ask themselves: wouldn't they be just rubber tappers, just miscegenated caboclos, bordering on?Indians?If I am willing to answer it, I am not mistaken, however, with the intentions that are embedded in it.I know very well that they do not do it in a detached intellectual exercise or mere curiosity.It is not, in effect, any disinterested speculation about the ethnic formation or the historical process that characterized that regional population: those who deny the Arara Indianity, without sophistry, do not intend to deny them the right to possess and enjoy traditional lands

Archaeology · Geography · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Indigenous Health and Education