Guarani- Ñandeva: Migration, territory and identity.

• Grant number: 09/03693-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2009
• End date: August 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Edmundo Antonio Peggion
• Grantee: Lígia Rodrigues de Almeida
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research seeks held a discussion about the design territorial Guarani who is linked to large migrations, to a focus group of indigenous Guarani-Ñandeva village Pyhaú, located in the current municipality of Barão de Antonina, west of São Paulo. To understand how to develop the Guarani territory and the movement that aims to define the understanding of spatial displacement of this group, through the analysis of historical documents, ethnographies concerning Guarani as a whole, oral narratives and observations of village routine looking so their particularities.