Mulheres indígenas em movimento: um olhar sobre o protagonismo das mulheres Jenipapo Kanindé, Aquiraz CE

Abstract

The Jenipapo-Kanindé reside in the village Lagoa Encantada, Municipality of Aquiraz, metro politan region of Fortaleza-CE. These people have as political leadership a woman known as Cacique Pequena (Maria de Lourdes da Conceição Alves). Throughout her trajectory she has led the struggle for demarcation of territory, health, education and human dignity, participates in the Indigenous Movement and is characterized by being an influential leader in the ethnic insurgencies in the region. In addition, he currently shares the cacicado with two of his daughters - Cacique Irê (Juliana Alves) and Cacique Jurema (Conceição Alves) - and are organized through the Association of Indigenous Women Jenipapo-Kanindé (AMIJK), the first indigenous women's organization created in the state. This means that there is a significant protagonism exercised by the Jenipapo Kanindé women. That said, this dissertation seeks to understand how to build female power in the group. To reflecton this is also to try to understand the political and symbolic place that women occupy in the village and what has been the place of AMIJK in the socio-political organisation of the community. The aim is to point out ways of understanding gender relations in the context of the Jenipapo-kanindé people. An ethnographic methodology was chosen in which field work and participant observation were the main strategies for data collection. In order to reach the proposed objectives, the research was debt-loaded in three chapters, the first sought to present the relationship between feminisms, gender and anthropology, then gave emphasis to community feminism in order to understand the movement of indigenous women "from" and "from" Latin America, and finally, presented some historical aspects of how the movement of indigenous women in Brazil has been designed. The second chapter sought to present the general data of the empirical field: history of the people; description of the socio-political organization; characterization of the territory and land conflicts, in order to present what has been the main struggle of the people, closing the chapter with the trajectory of Cacique Pequena articulated to that struggle. Finally, in the third chapter, AMIJK was highlighted.