A presença Guarani na região de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: apontamentos para uma revisão a partir do diálogo intercultural

Abstract

Since its early periods archeology has established relations between the living native populations and the groups of the past. Over the centuries different paradigms had generated different conceptions about the indigenous. Coming from a past linked to colonial processes and evolutionary assumptions archeology began to develop a more intense approach with indigenous people after the 80s. This shift in approach has paved the way for the active participation of indigenous groups in archaeological practice. In Brazil the consequences of this trend emerged in the same decade. Gradually the rupture between the current amerindian population groups and the past ones was deconstructed. The Guarani ethnoarchaeology became an important source of tools when studying the pre-colonial groups, however, the potentialies and limitations of this approach still lack studies. This research sets out to contribute to this movement. We seek to acknowledge the Mbyá-Guarani's point of view about their academically generated past information and, from that acknowledgment, to understand aspects of the relationship among the past Guarani studied by archeology and current Mbyá-Guarani covered in ethnology. This ethnoarchaeological approach has counted with the participation of Pelotas area related Mbyá-Guarani communities.