A Trajetória da Polícia Indígena do Alto Solimões: política indigenista e etnopolítica entre os Ticuna

Abstract

This research aims to present a study based on the anthropological perspective about the trajectory of the Indigenous Police of Alto Solimões river- PIASOL in the Upper Amazon region. This is an ethnography about the performance of PIASOL in indigenous communities, taking as a fundamental reference the dynamic process of the current etnopolitics into the context of the indigenous policy of Brazil. In this study, I try to demonstrate through anthropological analysis of speeches, social and political positions of Ticuna people on PIASOL, in order to understand how the action of public security, a legal liability of the State, shall be designed by the Ticuna people as an action to be performed by indigenous agents in their communities. I present some reflections about how the ethnopolitical of Ticuna people appear connected with public policies for indigenous from the presence and activities of PIASOL in indigenous communities, discussing in the end of this study about the question: whether through this connection, are there reconfigurations of political traditions, both by of indigenous peoples as well as the Brazilian state?