Formar gestores indígenas e fazer trajetórias: configurações das políticas indígenas e indigenistas no médio Solimões

Abstract

The discussion presented in this master'sthesis aims to analyze the configuration of Indian policy, considering as an ethnographic field the Course for Indigenous Managers of Projects from the Central Corridor of Amazon - PDPI/MMA (Demonstrative Projects of Indigenous People/ Ministry of Environment), accomplished in Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil), from February 2009 until March 2010. The purpose of this course was to bring up the technical, political and cultural subjects involved in building projects and to empower indigenous indicated by their indigenous organizations and communities to manage their own projects in a properly way. To analyze the configuration of indigenous policy, I will use the trajectories of João, José, Joaquim and Maria, indigenous managers of projects from the Solimões middle River region (Tefé and Alvarães Cities), trained by this course. Through this, I seek to understand the social impact of the course on the history of these indigenous people in relation to their initial expectations. The trajectories reveal agencies driven by Indians in Indian settings, which result in effects not measured by indigenism settings. They also reveal how relationships are established between Indigenous and the Brazilian State in the field of public policy and how the indigenous social movement articulate the various concepts, agents and agencies that make up this configuration.