SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY: TERRITORIAL PERCEPTIONS AND ETHNIC IDENTITY OF THE MUNDURUKU PEOPLE OF THE PLANALTO IN SANTARÉM-PARÁ

percepções territoriais e identidade étnica do povo Munduruku do Planalto em Santarém-Pará

Abstract

To understand the territorial, cultural perceptions and understand the territorialities that are put in tension by the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the western region of Pará. This article aims to analyze the booklet “Territorio Munduruku do Planalto Santareno”, produced in 2015 by the New Social Cartography of the Amazon Project. This territory comprises the villages of Açaizal, Amparador, Ipaupixuna and São Francisco da Cavada, located in floodplain areas on the right bank of the Amazon River and on dry land, close to the Santarém Curuá-Una Highway, PA-370. It is a research with a qualitative approach, of document analysis of the PNCSA fascicle, with support in oral history through interviews with indigenous leaders to understand the occupational process of the territory and understand the relations of disputes. It is understood that social cartography played a fundamental role in understanding the construction of territory and territorialities, especially in questions of ethnic affirmation that became a factor of resistance, remained and struggle for territory, mainly from 1990 when they began to assert themselves as indigenous people,