Cultura material: a produção de artesanato na terra indígena Beija- flor

Abstract

This paper has as objective to analyze the aspects of handicraft production and its relation to the creation of Beija-Flor Indigenous Land and aspects of social organization. It will be presented in the contextualization of the Amazon, aspects of the transformation of the indigenous peoples way of life from contact with European settlers and new relationships developed in space, to become the territory structured by the values of non-indigenous. The European conquest caused the displacement of many indigenous people from their places of origin to settle elsewhere, forming communities, is destabilized and restructuring themselves, resulting in the absorption values of others. The paper discusses the transformation of Beija-Flor Indigenous Community in the Indian land, contemplating their interests and conflicts arising from it. The origin of the community is related to the production of handicrafts for the market, and to support this aspect, we dealt with the meaning of material culture related to the importance of the techniques in human and art of indigenous peoples. It was used the literature and field research through interviews with forms, obtaining as a result the identification of the type of crafts produced in the community, such as ornaments, weapons and games, musical instruments and ritual, twisted, and the social and economic aspects related to the production of handicrafts, ethnic groups that live there, profiles of individuals and crafts typical of every people, raw materials and obtaining the same place and meaning of the craft for each ethnicity.