Reindigenizing Politics, Building an Ancestral Future: An Ethnography of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil

• Grant number: 24/15840-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: February 01, 2025
• End date: January 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Renato Sztutman
• Grantee: Gabriel Hardt Gomes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) serves as a unifying and referential entity within the national indigenous movement, aimed at strengthening the unity and coordination among indigenous peoples from various ethnic groups and regions of the country and mobilizing them against threats to their rights. Although there is a history of national indigenous organizations, over the past two decades, APIB, in collaboration with diverse indigenous groups, has been the principal organizer of debates, assembly spaces, demonstrations, and struggles. These efforts, while temporarily creating shared worlds, do not necessarily signify a unification or dilution of the distinct strategies of different peoples. Through an ethnographic study of APIB, this research seeks to investigate the creative mechanisms employed by this organization for the construction and organization of a national indigenous movement involving various peoples and advocating for their rights before the State.