As Formas organizacionais e a intencionalidade no manejo dos recursos naturais e antrópicos entre os Terena da Aldeia Lagoinha, terra indígena Buriti - MS: uma abordagem a partir da antropologia ecológica

Abstract

This thesis is an ethnographic study amongst the Terena people in the Lagoinha village, Buriti Indigenous Land (T.I.), situated between the municipalities of Dois Irmãos do Buriti and Sidrolandia, in the central region of the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its main objective is to focus on the forms of social organization, within their present territorial limits of 2090 hectares, to manage and use existing environmental and anthropic resources. I used tools of Ecological Anthropological analysis and theoretical benchmarks to understand the processes of Terena’s territorial occupation and the construction of their territoriality. As I concentrated on the practices around Terena’s material life, great portion of the thesis is devoted to describing the technical aspects of their subsistence activities and the organization of the social units involved in the production process. At the same time, the perspective is also one of the search for the Terena ideal life, one of living together, as a family, to aggregate family branches to encounter their good way of life.