A Organização produtiva dos Avá-Guarani nos Tekoha dos municípios de Terra Roxa e Guaíra/PR

Abstract

The process of resumption of the territories of the Avá-Guarani in the municipalities of Guaíra and Terra Roxa, in the West of Paraná, is a subject still little explored, but that has a great appeal for Geography. This process involves numerous conflicts, one of which is intended to reflect, involves, on the one hand, the logic of capitalist occupation, based on the commodity, capitalist ownership of land and accumulation of wealth. On the other hand, the logic of occupation of the Avá-Guarani, based on the common use of their lands based on culture and spirituality. We study the historical, economic and social facts that forced them to leave their lands of traditional occupation, their relations with agribusiness, as well as their resistance and their struggle for a land that is not "any land." It is the land where their ancestors lived, guaranteed to them by the Constitution. The absence of land, a territory, for their social reproduction, makes them even more dependent on welfare programs, consumer relations and unequal interactions with agribusiness, dominant in the region under study, as well as with the State. The Avá-Guarani develop a productive organization in tekoha camps, in order to guarantee their physical and spiritual reproduction. However, the advance of the fronts of non-indigenous occupation on the Avá-Guarani territory brought some impacts to its collective productive organization, since it causes the distancing of its customs and traditions. The Avá-Guarani began to insert into their productive organization some practices that are not specific to their culture, such as the sale of their work force and the transformation of the products of their work into values of non-capitalist. In this sense, it is understood that the Avá-Guarani produce commodities, but their model of production differs from the parameters of the mode of capitalist production. While in capitalism production aims to profit, indigenous production aims at its physical and spiritual reproduction. We analyze the subject through fieldwork, visits and interviews, open and structured, as well as research on governmental determinations, decisive for the conflictive reality, of a long standing and still present at this moment.