Os “BRANCOS NÃO SABEM”

A IGNORÂNCIA BRANCA CULTIVADA E A SAGACIDADE TENTEHAR NAS RELAÇÕES INTERÉTNICAS.

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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.126627

Abstract

This work focuses on the analysis of a series of practices and discourses carried out by the Tentehar indigenous people, from the Araribóia Indigenous Land, in Maranhão, which suggest the existence of a supposed “advantage” that this people has over whites in certain contexts. With the aid of the category of understanding sagacity, proposed by Almeida, we analyze the interethnic relations experienced between the Tentehar and the whites, with the former making use of knowledge of the culture of the other to achieve small victories over their adversaries. Cleverness, the use of images, the blind spots constitute some of the relationship strategies that are activated by the Tentehar in interethnic relationships.

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Emerson Rubens Mesquita Almeida, UFMA

Professor Mestre do Curso de Ciências Humanas/Sociologia. Doutorando do Curso de Antropologia Social da UnB

Larissa dos Santos Martins, FUNAI

Graduada em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Maranhão - 2010 , Mestre em Antropologia Social pel Universidade de Brasília - UnB 2019, Indigenista Especializada da Fundação Nacional do Índio - FUNAI, desde de 2010. Atua nas áreas de Etnologia Indígenas, direitos dos povos indígenas, territorialidades e relações interétnicas

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2022-09-28

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ALMEIDA, Emerson Rubens Mesquita; DOS SANTOS MARTINS, Larissa. Os “BRANCOS NÃO SABEM”: A IGNORÂNCIA BRANCA CULTIVADA E A SAGACIDADE TENTEHAR NAS RELAÇÕES INTERÉTNICAS. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 16, n. 2, p. 33–57, 2022. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.126627. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/126627. Acesso em: 15 sep. 2026.

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