RETORNOS E RETOMADAS PATAXÓ HÃHÃHÃI
NOTAS ETNOGRÁFICAS DESDE O SUL DA BAHIA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.137472Abstract
Describing the mobilization of the Pataxó Hãhãhãi people to reunite the people and retake their traditional territory, located in the south of Bahia, is the main objective of this article. To this end, I chose the trajectory of a family during the dispersion caused by the invasion of the Caramuru-Paraguassu Indigenous Land, located between the municipalities of Itaju do Colônia, Pau Brasil and Camacã, to understand the dynamics of people's location. Through a conception that interprets dispersion as “spreading” or “living spread out”, the Pataxó Hãhãhãi reconstituted, through memory regimes, the period in which they lived away from the territory, the gears to bring people together and carry out land repossessions. Organized in four cycles of retakings, the struggle for Pataxó Hãhãhãi land lasted 30 years until the expulsion of the last invader. This article, which will specifically deal with the dispersion of a family and the II cycle of repossessions (1997-2000), is the result of an ethnography that excelled in the narrative record of the people's relationship with the land, and the struggle to recover it.