“THOSE WHO ARRIVED WAS KALANKÓ!”: INDIGENOUS RESISTANCES AND Plots IN THE ALTO SERTÃO ALAGOANO (1980-2017)
Daily; Culture; Image; Narrative; Resistance
The Kalankó indigenous people survive in the rural area of the municipality of Água Branca, about 300 km from the capital of Alagoas, Maceió, and are one of the resistant ethnic groups in the region since their ancestors, coming from the hinterland of Pernambuco, settled in the territory today. corresponding to the villages of Januária, Gregório and Lajeiro do Couro. In this way, we analyze the different characteristics of the relationships between indigenous people and the surrounding society, made up of non-indigenous people and official bodies, based on documentary records associated with certain images and narratives. The Kalankó protagonism was emphasized according to the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective of the fields of History, Anthropology, Sociology and Geography, allowing interpretations sensitive to indigenous interests and everyday details to mobilizations and community scopes. We base the methodological framework on the micro-historical analysis of Ginzburg (1989), in relation to the interpretation of the evidence specific to the trajectory of individuals, and on the exercise of Oral History, defended by Alberti (2004) and based on the complex craft of recording, record of details of the interview environment, transcription and study of derived material. Theoretically, we approach different concepts according to the authors Amorim (2017), Samain (2012), Chartier (2002), Certeau (1998), Peixoto (2018), Herbetta (2011), Silva (2017) and other scholars whose writings served the investigation literature about the Kalankó indigenous people and the theoretical analysis linked to the paradigms of the New Cultural History, interested in generalized subjects in the historiography considered official in the past. Therefore, we discuss images and narratives, derived from interviews, photographs, journalistic records, official documents and other evidence about the Kalankó indigenous people in the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries, comprising particularities, contradictions and protagonisms.