Politics, brokerage and conflicts: the social construction of Pitaguary indigenous leaders (Ceará State).
Leadership; Faccionalism; Indigenous Moviment.
This research aims at analyzing how the Pitaguary (CE) indigenous leaderships are constructed, modeled and acted upon and, consequently, how they maintain their legitimacy both in a local sphere and in a translocal scenario of ethnic mobilizations. In this way, I approach the process of political organization Pitaguary, giving contours to internal factional conflicts. From a procedural and historical perspective, taking into account the dynamics and processes of territorialization (Oliveira Filho, 2004) of the aforementioned ethnic group (Barth, 2011), we can see how these subjects become central mediating agents in the negotiation of demands and dialogue with the State. The action and recognition of these actors both in their communities and in terms of the Indigenous Movement, in which they also participate, is made from their political involvement in different fields of dispute, among them: education, health, "retakes", besides the own ethnic-political mobilization. In this way, the leaderships of the four Pitaguary villages trigger distinct supports, influences, powers and prestige, including with varied institutional agents.