Vida e trabalho da mulher indígena: o protagonismo da tuxaua Baku na comunidade Sahu-apé, Iranduba - AM

Abstract

This work assumed the intention to verify the protagonism of Zelinda da Silva Freitas, Baku of the Sateré-Mawé ethnicity. We search, together with it, to perfaz its trajectory of life since living the IT Ponta Alegre, where she was born, until the Sahu-apé Community located in the City of Iranduba/AM, where she honradamente plays the important recognized role of tuxaua in the way it its people. They are more than 30 years to the front of the Sahu-apé Community. A life marked in way the diverse antagonisms where to be woman and to locate itself as authority has a high price. The research arrives in port assumed it of the theories of sort in an eminently qualitative process, centered in the stories and narratives of tuxaua Baku, our main informer. In the analysis of the espacialidade of the Sahu-apé community we made use of the ethnographic method and the technique of the field notebook. In the collection of data of other coadjuvantes informers of the research we appeal to the technique of interview of the half-structuralized type. We hear in interview 10 resident people of the investigated aboriginal Community. The research sample that Baku owner is the first woman tuxaua that notice in the Amazonia is had. Its protagonism is widely recognized for the entities of aboriginal representation of the Amazonia as it is the case of the COIAB (Coordination of the Aboriginal Organizations of the Brazilian Amazonia) and Advice of the Tuxauas Biggest of the Etnia Sateré-Mawé. One concludes, finally, that the Sahu-apé community is suigeneris, hybrid, because she is not nor agricultural and nor urban, for is situated in the border of the white and the aboriginal, being aboriginal of what white.