Cultural identity in the Amazon: ethnography of indigenous people day in Aipã Anambé (PA/Bazil)

Abstract

This reflection deals with the culture and identity of a traditional indigenous community in the interior of the Amazon. Through the process of reconfiguring identities, in dialogue with modernity, we analyze the negotiations and conflicts between a traditional way of life and external references to the community. Methodologically, we draw on the ethnography of social practices of self-affirmation in the Aipã Anambé indigenous community, the locus of the research, analyzing the subjects who, displaced and decentered from themselves, reconfigure their identities while maintaining cultural traditions, customs, ritualizations and other identity elements. The thesis that guides this reflection is based on the fact that the Anambé, due to a series of social, economic and cultural factors, have currently gone through a significant process of (re)construction of their identities, modifying customs and traditions, in addition to the incorporation of new identity and cultural elements arising from coexistence with modern society.