BELONGING AND IDENTITY, TERRITORIALITY AND BORDER -- THE CHIQUITANOS IN BRAZIL AND BOLIVIA

Authors

  • Joana Aparecida Fernandes Silva UFG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.29638

Keywords:

identity, nacionality, frontier, Chiquitanos.

Abstract

It is intended to reflect, from the history of the people Chiquitano, originally a set of more than twenty ethnic groups that were aldeadas by Jesuits in the Chiquitos mission, elements of contemporary identity and ethnicity. The proposal presented is to understand how identities are situated today relating to the territoritalities experienced in Bolivia and Brazil, since these people are currently split because the division of national states. The fact that they live in one country or in another causes different experiences and propositions of identity. However, until the 1980s the frontier between the two countries was not yet fully institutionalized, and it was possible a transit to and fro, and this freedom allowed maintenance of social relations and kinship networks. How are the identities currently in territorial diversity and historical? How they configure their territoritalities Chiquitanos in Bolivia and Brazil if the indigenous policies are different? How the self-identifications occur if there are different concepts for "Indians" - here and Bolivia indigenous "peasant" or "pueblos originales"? How the official recognition of ethnicity in Brazil Chiquitanos brought new elements that caused conflicts? These are questions we intend to answer in this paper.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Joana Aparecida Fernandes Silva, UFG

Doutora em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de São Paulo, professora associada da Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais da Universidade Federal de Goiás

Published

2012-06-30

How to Cite

SILVA, Joana Aparecida Fernandes. BELONGING AND IDENTITY, TERRITORIALITY AND BORDER -- THE CHIQUITANOS IN BRAZIL AND BOLIVIA. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 6, n. 1, p. 119, 2012. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.29638. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/29638. Acesso em: 12 aug. 2026.

Issue

Section

ARTICLES