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| Author(s): |
Fábio Ozias Zuker
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2022-12-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Renato Sztutman;
Guilherme Moura Fagundes;
Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza;
Florêncio Almeida Vaz Filho
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| Advisor: | Renato Sztutman |
| Abstract | |
This thesis is an ethnography that follows the advance of neoliberal capitalism over the Amazon rainforest. It is centered on the Lower Tapajós region (western Pará), and closely follows the ways in which indigenous populations (mainly the Tupinambá) understand the expansion of this capitalistic frontier, marked by the transformation of the forest into soybean monoculture fields and the development of the necessary infrastructure to export the grains. This process is often described by indigenous peoples as a war, which operates at different levels, among which this thesis highlights three aspects: a) identity: insofar as indigenous identity is denied, so that agribusiness can seize their territories. Here I focus particularly on how the Tupinambá articulate their own theories about what it means to be indigenous today, an alternative theory of colonization; b) corporal: the way in which colonization is felt by the Tupinambá as a weakening and illness of the body, in the face of the intensification of the destruction of territories, with effects similar to those of the witchcraft; c) territorial-landscape: the space created by the advance of soybeans in Santarém is marked by the toxicity of pesticides, the emptying of the communities and an ecology prone to the emergence of new diseases; that is, both a sicken territory and one that generates diseases. It is important, here, to think both about what the expansion of capitalism does to the Lower Tapajós and the people who live there, and what these people do in the face of the destruction. Thus, special emphasis is given to the forms of resistance and creation of worlds by the Tupinambá, in alliance with other peoples in the region, in the midst of the ruins generated by contemporary capitalism. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/24208-0 - Times of war at the low Tapajos river |
| Grantee: | Fábio Ozias Zuker |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |