VULNERABILIDADE E DEMOGRAFIA: elementos de resiliência na população indígena Karajá-Xambioá, Santa Fé do Araguaia, TO

Abstract

In this research we explored the socio-environmental, socioeconomic and cultural aspects of an indigenous village in the interior of the Legal Amazon. The discussion is based on historical-documentary studies and an ethnographic approach in the Karajá-Xambioá village, in the north of Tocantins. Initially, a survey of the community's recent history was carried out. We seek to identify those elements that characterize resilience among historically vulnerable populations, based on their adaptive capacity, observed in the practices and uses that make up the daily lives of indigenous people who live between rural and urban areas in Tocantins. In addition to focusing on the wide range of factors associated with the history of indigenous people since colonization, we focus this research on another facet of the concept of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience. To this end, this work converges a discussion about the term resilience within the social sciences; of the uses and practices carried out in everyday life in the light of the philosopher and historian Michel de Certeau as individuals' responses to the impositions of the current system. Adaptive capacity is a key element in adapting to the social environment of urbanization and also demands ways of life that permeate resilience. This research received financial support from CAPES through the social demand program 001.