Rotas críticas das mulheres Sateré-Mawé no enfrentamento da violência doméstica: novos marcadores de gênero no contexto indígena

Abstract

This study assumed the purpose of identifying the meaning and types of violence against women in the indigenous context, locating the trajectory of women sateré-mawé who live or have experienced domestic violence. Violence against indigenous women are characterized as an expression of social issue is extremely serious enough to engender the women strategies for coping. The killings and assaults against women drove the articulation of the indigenous movement around the theme of gender, presenting himself now as one of the main agendas and concerns of indigenous women's movement. The lack of studies, mainly at the local, that address systematically the actions taken by Indigenous women in breaking the silence in the face of relationships considered as domestic violence was one of the reasons that led us to investigate the issue. The research took the perspective of qualitative approaches without excluding the quantitative aspects, using the technique of semi-structured interview aimed at focus groups, in addition to the narratives of life histories. Research shows that domestic violence has brought suffering and restrictions for women sateré-mawé, detecting what violence is in designing them and what are the interference of this phenomenon in the lives of these women and their communities. It was noted, too, the distance between the current institutional and legal changes that indigenous women sateré-mawé. The answers found by Indigenous women to deal with and/or disrupt with violence has been based on local strategies and tools, such as the creation of the indian police saterémawé. This strategy has been the main way legitimized by ethnic group for the resolution of cases of violence against women in the villages.