OWNERS OF THE FIGHT: Sacralization of peasant and indigenous leaders killed in land conflict areas

• Grant number: 15/20035-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2016
• End date: September 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Rural Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Emilia Pietrafesa de Godoi
• Grantee: Edimilson Rodrigues de Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/13948-3 - Forms of sacralization of peasant and indigenous leaders murdered in regions where land disputes are intense, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The overall objective of this research is to analyze the effects of ritualization and sacralization of peasant and indigenous leaders, killed in land conflict zones in the Amazon and Brazilian Northeast, to understand the symbolic dimension of the struggle for land in these regions of the country, from Carrying out ethnographic fieldwork in three pilgrimages organized and/or supported by the Regional Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) and the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI): the Pilgrimage of Land and Water Padre Josimo, held every May in State of Tocantins; the Pilgrimage of the Forest, which takes place in July in Anapu (PA); and the Martyrs of the Walk Pilgrimage, in Ribeirão Cascalheira (MT), where is located the Latin America Martyrs Gallery; fieldwork will also take place in the Assembly of the Ororubá Xukuru people, which takes place in May, in Pesqueira (PE). The intention is to relate the various elements present in these rituals with the strategies of struggle for land of peasants and indigenous groups; and also think like the first two rituals mentioned and Xukuru Assembly, apparently regional and specific feed the mystique of the Pilgrimage Walk Martyrs, which takes place every five years. The next pilgrimage is scheduled for the year 2016.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SOUZA, Edimilson Rodrigues de. The struggle is made along the way: sacralization of peasant and indigenous leaders killed in land conflict contexts in Brazil. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.