ETHNO-DEVELOPMENT UNDER CONSIDERATION IN THE INDIGENOUS LANDS OF RORAIMA

Abstract

Inter-ethnic relations make Indigenous Peoples find themselves even more entered and adapted to a globalized economy, often linked to international wealth production processes, suffering the adverse consequences therefrom, but also drawing benefits and political and economic gains of such situations. I approach here how, after the completion of the Raposa-Serra do Sol (TIRSS) demarcation and removal of the invaders, are some opportunities for economic activity and development projects being discussed and implemented in the delimitated area and in other Indigenous Lands in the state of Roraima. Within this theme, I analyze the Wapichana and Macuxi insertion in production and circulation networks linked to ethno-development projects, as well as I try to observe how these projects appear in the local speeches, either indigenous or not. The doubts and questions, when not the direct refusal to the term “Ethno-development”, are constantly seen among both the indigenous movement and its opponents, in addition to the institutional places that exercise intermediary role in this complex web of political and economic relations.

Keywords

• Ethno-development;
• Ethnicity;
• Indigenous Lands;
• Roraima