Da unicidade virtual a polifonia real: micropolíticas Ticuna no Alto Solimões - Am/Brasil

Abstract

This dissertation is concerned with the Ticuna ethnopolitics configuration from the formation of internal political units in the indigenous social movement, understanding that the idea of political unity among the Ticuna people was never a reality in fact, even when they struggled for the lands demarcation. Actually, what really occurred during all the 1970-1980 decade, while the fight for the lands regularization was a virtual union expressed “by one voice” inside of an indigenous social movement that had consciousness that differences and internal conflicts should give rise to a common objective: the land demarcation. However, with the legal and physical demarcation of the six main Ticuna ethnic territory (Eware I and II, Lago Beruri, Porto Espiritual, Betânia and Vui-Uata-In and/or Nova Itália), the end of the 1990 decade and the early XXI century was followed by the creation of a multiplicy of Ticuna social organizations and political associations, guided to several fields of political action. In many cases, these same organizations and associations began to cash by competing for the same projects and government agreements. However, what is politically produced among Ticuna Indians is currently a set of micropolitics conduced by a multiplicity os Ticuna‟s organizations and associations. Given the disputes by projects and government agreements there was the necessity of institutionalization for the political mechanisms of action (organization and associations), this fact eventually launch the Ticuna leaders and chiefs straight to the field of legal activity, causing a serie of benefits, but on the other side- as in the case of CGTT organization during the health agreement with FUNASA- triggered an indebtedness process, which in many ways affected the prestige of several Ticuna leaders and chiefs that historically had been in the forefront of Ticuna indigenous movement.