Mecanismos de sociabilidade Enawene Nawe e o papel da opan- Operação Amazônia Nativa- na defesa do território

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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Nowadays there are more than two hundred Indian tribes in Brazil, who speak around a hundred seventy different languages. These tribes have a total of about three hundred fifty thousand individuals. Most of them gather in Legal Amazonia, where the globalization economic process has raced the implementation of development models, responsible for social and environmental losses in the country. They are immeasurably bigger than the profits concentrated for a few beneficiaries. In this situation, the huge ethnic diversity in the country has faced several predatory ways of natural and/or cultural values from these tribes, such as the genetic piracy, the non-stop mining, the unpunished wood cutting and the implementation of projects agro-industrial which devastate large areas and deplete the land fast. The Enawene Nawe is one of the many Indian tribes that have been threatened by these models nowadays. The economic practices developed around the Enawene Nawe land include wood cutting, the huge forest burnings for pastures, the mining and the soy agro-industry. The degradation of the bordering areas to the territory, such as the pollution of the headboard of the rivers and the abusive use of agrochemical products are hazardous for the productivity activities of this people. This predatory front frequently invades the Enawene Nawe territory, which is one of the last preserved areas in the region in the north of Mato Grosso. The responsible people for these problems do not only cause harm for the Enawene Nawe but they also damage the environment and even break the Brazilian laws once these lands are demarcated and registered as the Union Patrimony. For this reason, the Opan Operação Amazônica Nativa (Native Amazonian Operation), a civil entity, with its headquarters in Cuiabá, which develops many work projects with the Indian communities in Legal Amazônia, also works with the Enawene Nawe. Through a team Opan has been a reference for this tribe as they promote activities in Health, Economy, Education and Territory Defence. Despite the geographic isolation of the Enawene Nawe, they also participate in other issues related to our society, such as our government, The Funai Fundação Nacional do Índio (Indian National Foundation), the Brasnorte City Hall, the wood cutting industry, the miners, the colonists, the farms nearby, and also with their Myky Nambikwara and Rikbaktsa neighbors. Besides, the use of new technology, such as boat engines and of new elements in the material and symbolic fields compose a panorama which becomes complex, eventually changing or reinforcing the mechanisms of sociability in this society. The objective of this work is to understand how the Enawene Nawe react to these challenges which they face at the same time as social workers also offer them proposals.

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antropologia Índios saluma ciencias sociais aplicadas índios território

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