Kariri-Xokó: territorialização e organização política de uma comunidade indígena do Baixo São Francisco

Abstract

Ouricuri and toré are two political processes that enable the social organization of the Kariri-Xokó indigenous community within the geographical limits of the Terra Indígena Kariri-Xocó. We identified these two processes through three specific objectives: 1) to review the territorialization of the Kariri-Xokó community; 2) describe the current situation of the Kariri-Xokó community; 3) to introduce the Fulkaxó and the Kaxagó (two ethnic groups that live in Terra Indígena Kariri-Xocó). We analyzed the tensions of the KaririXokó community in the light of anthropological concepts of ethnic group and territorialization. We found that, despite political differences, the relationship of the Fulkaxó families with the Kariri-Xokó community is thought in terms of belonging to a single collectivity. Similarly, we found that, despite the representation of ethnic kinship associated with a particular origin, there is at least one effective and significant case of kinship bond between the Kaxagó families and the Kariri-Xokó leaders. The main contribution of the work is to find a marriage union between a Kaxagó man and a woman whose rise refers to important leaders of the Kariri-Xokó community. The identification of this alliance provides empirical support for future anthropological research between the Kaxagó and the Kariri-Xokó.