JUST WE ARE NOT VILLAGES: IDENTITY AND INVISIBILITY AMONG PEOPLE ORIGINATING FROM PIRAQUÊ-AÇU, ARACRUZ-ES
Márcio Antônio Farias de Freitas[1]
PhD in
Anthropology. Master and Graduate in Social Sciences.
[1]Researcher at the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA/Portugal), Red Antropología Ambiental (Spain) and
Laboratory of Studies, Research and Experiments in Natures-Cultures
(UFES/Brazil); in addition to being a member of the Portuguese Association of
Anthropology (APA) and the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA).
ABSTRACT
The municipality of Aracruz, located on the north coast of the State of
Espírito Santo, is marked by the presence of Guarani and Tupiniquim indigenous
peoples, as well as riverside dwellers and fishermen, who live on the banks of
the Piraquê-açu River, whose mouth meets the Atlantic Ocean. , which, alongside
the Atlantic Forest and the mangrove swamp, form a rich biodiversity of natural
ecosystems, fundamental in the material and symbolic production and
reproduction of human collectives. But this scenario was dramatically impacted
in November 2015, due to the collapse of the Fundão dam, owned by Samarco
Mineração S/A [1],
which occurred in Mariana, State of Minas Gerais, which spilled about 62
million cubic meters of ore tailings. iron and silica, among other elements. In
my fieldwork for my doctorate, carried out in 2017 in Aracruz-ES, I came across an uncomfortable situation, since on the
north bank of the Piraquê-açu river those affected were recognized as such,
while those on the south bank remain to this day without this recognition. In
this article, I intend to analyze this asymmetry in the treatment of those
affected by Piraquê-açu, which permeates the recognition - or not - by the
State of these collectives as indigenous.
Keywords: indigenous peoples -
ethnic identity - self recognition - environmental crime - invisibility
[1]Currently controlled through a joint venture between Vale S/A and the Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton Ltd.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
junho 11, 2023
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