O Massacre de Capacete: narrativa, memória e história TIkuna no município de Benjamin Constant, Amazonas

Abstract

This dissertation constitutes an ethnological study and Ethnohistorical about "The helmet Massacre: Narrative, Memory and history Tikuna in the city of Benjamin Constant, Amazonas ". The subject refers to an event that occurred on March 28, 1988, when there was the murder and disappearance of indigenous peoples of the ethnic Tikuna of several indigenous communities such as Porto Espiritual, Porto Lima, Bom Pastor and São Leopoldo, including children, young people, adults and the elderly, leaving still injured survivors. The massacre, recognized legally, as an attempt at genocide, more precisely of Ethnocidio, is presented in several versions, from the facts that provoked it to its outcome. It involved the people Tikuna As a victim and persons linked to one of the economically powerful non-indigenous families of the Alto Solimões region: The Castelo Branco family, consisting of loggers, local politicians and other people at their service. There was great repercussion and coverage of the occurrence by local, regional, national and international media, which allowed a judicial process of hundreds of reports. In addition, the case was treated in publications of well-known researchers in Brazil and abroad. The aim of this study is to analyze the events involving the event, as well as the impacts, cultural and political reconfigurations stemming from the helmet Massacre for the people Tikuna, based on field research conducted between 2017 and 2018 in the indigenous community Tikuna of Porto Espiritual and in the urban area of the city of Benjamin Constant, Amazonas. Also, there is the analysis of written sources (journalistic, bibliographical, reports, judicial processes, among others), visuals (such as photographs of the time) and through an ethnography that privileged the memories and narratives of people who witnessed the and relatives bound by ties of ethnic belonging. The relevance of the study is the possibility of articulating a history of time in the present from the legal versions, the accused, the media and the surviving interlocutors and how the massacre interferes in the reaffirmation and claims of the indigenous people and of your story.