A apropriação da categoria “povos tradicionais” para a autoafirmação de uma identidade coletiva

Abstract

The dissertation aims to reflect on the change of meaning in the category of traditional peoples. This was a concept created by the government and the academy to encompass several communities that, although different from each other, had similar characteristics. This category has its meaning changed, becoming an element of collective identity, in which these communities assume this nomenclature and call themselves traditional peoples. These communities, which were grouped in the same category by wills outside them, begin to make alliances among themselves and begin to unite following their own principles, mainly because of the similar conflicts they had with capitalist society. To analyze this issue, the research will focus on the National Commission of Traditional Peoples and Communities, a state agency that brought together the different segments of traditional peoples and played a fundamental role in the union of these different communities. It was important as a political force for them, and also in the self-identification of the communities as traditional peoples. It is also observed the relationship of these peoples with the State, and the ways in which traditional communities use elements of capitalist ontology to defend their interests.