CAPTURE AND DOMESTICATION OF THE CITY
REFLECTIONS ON THE USE OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES IN THE SPACE MOVEMENTS OF THE WASSU-COCAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyze the relationships that the Wassu-Cocal indigenous people (Alagoas State/ northeast of Brazil) establish with the Indigenous Land and urban areas. Every day, residents of the villages travel to work, study, sell or buy products in stores, visit relatives in neighboring cities, in the capital, Maceió (80km) and in distant cities such as São Paulo. The ethnographic research was produced throughout 2019, and the challenge was to accompany the movements of people, families and family groups between the villages and cities in the region. The article highlights the agencies in traffic between cities and villages. It proposes a reflection on research methodologies that emerge in contexts of interaction between the researcher and those being researched in which the indigenous perspective be a protagonist in the knowledge process.