The Cultural Politics of Visibility: The Pankararu in the city of São Paulo

Authors

  • Edson Yukio Nakashima Universidade de São Paulo
  • Marcos Alexandre dos Santos Albuquerque Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Keywords:

Indigenous Pankararu, migration, indigenous policies, performance, identity

Abstract

Over the last 60 years, the indigenous Pankararu migrate from Pernambuco to the city of São Paulo and now number more than 2000 people in this town. Due to their autonomous organization, they were the first native migrant group of the Northeast to receive some assistance of organs such as FUNAI and FUNASA, in São Paulo. But, for that, the Pankararu started to promote presentations of an ancient religious tradition hitherto restricted to their villages in Pernambuco: the mask praiá. This article presents the context of construction of the visibility of the Pankararu in São Paulo and the legitimacy of this ethnic characteristic through the presentations of the praiás like a paradigmatic element that characterizes the “way of being indigenous” Pankararu.

Author Biographies

Edson Yukio Nakashima, Universidade de São Paulo

Bacharel em Letras pela FFLCH-USP e Mestre em Educação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (2009).

Marcos Alexandre dos Santos Albuquerque, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Graduado em Ciências Sociais  e Mestre em Sociologia pela pela Universidade Federal de Campina Grande e Doutorando pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

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Published

2011-07-12

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 47 (2011): Space. Displacements

Section

Articles