Memórias: o despertar pelos encantos de uma “identidade adormecida” e as mobilizações territoriais pelos Tupinambá de Olivença (Ilhéus/BA).

Abstract

In this study, from the of oral memories and written and, more, bibliographic sources, we discuss how occurred the mobilizations of the Tupinambá of Olivença the South of Bahia the stay in the territory they occupy and its consequences: produced identity representations and collective actions of leaders and chieftains, highlighted by the period between 1920-30, in which it is was active an icon in the history of Tupinambá, the “caboclo” Marcellino José Alves. We analyze the practices identity recovery by Tupinambá of Olivença, from speeches (not) belonging; we problematize indigenous identity representations, built during the historical process of ethno-territorial recognition and permanence in IT, while practices mobilizations and historical production as opposed to oblivion produced hegemonic; and we discuss the litigation experience and the performance of leaders and chieftains. Thus, we analyze some representations of the past in the present experienced by the Tupinambá of Olivença, supported in the express memories and orality in the visions about how Delighted, the main sacred entities in Tupinambá cosmology, which signaled the time to awaken the “sleeping identity”.