A existência indígena dos Anacé da Serra da Japuara: continuidade histórica, conexões de parentesco e habitar a terra ancestral com encantados

Abstract

This thesis deals with the ethnographic circumscription of fundamental elements of the indigenous existence of the indigenous community Anacé da serra da Japuara, in order to demonstrate the historical continuity in the territory of the municipality of Caucaia, in Ceará, from the 17th century to the 21st century. Therefore, it analyzes the relevant historiography, academic works of indigenous Anacé and the ethnographic material prepared between the years 2019 and 2022. The latter, in turn, had as propulsion the Ingoldian idea of "mesh" to write the experiences lived by the Anacé da Japuara with the environment of the Serra da Japuara and surroundings, in which there are senses imprinted on the ground of the villages and inside the land. In this way, we emphasize kinship connections as linked to places, which can also be seen in the documentary corpus, in the bibliography of the theme, as well as in the local narrative about families and places. This bond is what we pursue throughout the course of fieldwork. From the moment that the reality lived by this indigenous community revealed the coexistence with the extra environmental, we use the notion of "cosmopolitics" of Isabelle Stenger (2018) for analytical purpose. Thus, we circumscribe the notion of cosmopolitical meshes from the demonstration that kinship connections sustain the indigenous existence of this Anacé community in the environment in which it maintains a longevous bond, Especially in the extra environmental dimension of coexistence with enchanted independently of the change of land regime.