Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DEISIANE DA SILVA BEZERRA

DYNAMICS OF MEDIATION: FATHER ALFREDO DÂMASO AND THE INDIGENOUS ORGANIZED MOVEMENT BASED ON THE ETHNIC RECOGNITION OF THE FULNI-Ô IN PERNAMBUCO (1918-1954)

Mediation; ethnic recognition; indigenous peoples; Fulni-ô

In this thesis we propose to discuss the dynamics of mediation involving the Carnijó-Funi-ô and Father Alfredo Pinto Dâmaso, between 1918 and mid-1950, based on the process of official ethnic recognition of this people. Documentary analysis and oral records reinforced and ratified our hypothesis that the relationship between indigenous people and mediator contributed to the consolidation of an organized indigenous movement constituted from networks forged by indigenous people, supported by those promoted by the mediator. This argument is based on the triggering of new processes of ethnic recognition in the Northeast, involving indigenous peoples in Pernambuco, Alagoas and Bahia. We will seek to highlight the role of indigenous people in this process; as well as the socio-political conditions that favored access to the Indian Protection Service and the construction of the Dantas Barreto Indigenous Post, followed by other indigenous posts in the aforementioned states. We will also highlight the mediator's perception of the processes narrated by him in documents collected, archived and also produced by him. We base our discussions on the reflections of authors such as Edson Silva (2008), João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho (2016), Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima (1992), Mariana Albuquerque Dantas (2010), E.P. Thompson (2021), Michel de Certeau (2015), Pierre Nora (1993) and Carlo Ginzburg (1989) and Giovane Levi (2000), dialoguing with analyzes of documentary sources and oral memories.