Banca de DEFESA: Rute Morais Souza

"SÃO GONÇALO LEAVES AND THE PEOPLE ARE CRYING” PRACTICES, RITUALS AND ANACÉ SPIRITUALITY IN 

THE TABA INDIGENOUS RESERVE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CAUCAIA, CEARÁ - BRAZIL

ethnic identity; forced removal; spirituality; practices and dance of São Gonçalo of the Anacé People.

The present Masters dissertation deals with a politically engaged anthropological research carried out with the Anacé people in the Taba dos Anacé Indigenous Reserve in the municipality of Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil. Seeking to understand the impacts caused after being forcibly removed from their Territory, a result of the second removal of the Village Matões e Bolso that took place in 2018, motivated by the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex - CIPP. The central objective of the analysis is to describe how the construction and reconstruction process is taking place through the identity, memories, and cultural life narrated by the families. To this end, the work will focus on the struggles and mobilizations, highlighting the Dance of São Gonçalo of the Anacé People as one of the main motivators in adapting to the new territory and symbolic resignifications of the Indigenous people in the new space. The discussion addressed in the research results takes place over the five years of being forcibly resettled in the territory and the spiritual relationship that is being re-signified through ancestral rituals, traditions, dances and Anacé's spiritual relationship with the enchanted ones.