Etnicidade e ritual Tremembé: construção da memória e lógica cultural

Abstract

The multiple dynamic production and socioThe processes of identity of indigenous peoples in the Northeast have been analyzed in recent decades from an interpretive grid with the emphasis socio- -political demarcation of ethnic boundaries. Develop an interpretative analysis in this article regarding the meaning of the ritual (Torém) and drink (mocororó) that serves as support in the context of ethnicity Tremembé, indigenous people of the Northwest coast of Ceará. The idea is to show that the logical interpretation of the memory elements of ethnic and socio-cultural structure that is guided by a sense that their own cultural and fragmented in a transverse direction builds. Search is so overcome certain dichotomy in studies of ethnicity, demonstrating the dialectic between subjective experience and social memory and political practice