THE TERRITORIALITY THE PEOPLE KRAHÔ CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

In recent decades, the issue of territoriality of indigenous peoples has been a fertile field for research of a geographic nature, especially because it is part of studies on contradictions in the Brazilian field and on the cultural approaches that Geography proposes to study. The concepts of territory, territoriality and culture guide these studies. Therefore, the objective of this work is to investigate and understand the territoriality of the Krahô people from a cultural perspective. Here, it is assumed that culture and territoriality are dimensions of human behavior, that both are socially and historically constructed, and that territory is a product of power relations, occupation, appropriation and domination of geographic space. Therefore, the objective of this work is to investigate and understand the territoriality of the Krahô people from a cultural perspective. The research has an ethnographic, exploratory-descriptive and qualitative character, with participant observation. It was found that the territoriality of the Krahô people is particularized by its ethnographic aspects: myths, cosmology, collective experiences, symbolic exchanges, traditional knowledge and the reciprocal relationship with nature. Therefore, these aspects should be the starting point for thinking about and understanding Krahô territoriality.