“RELEVANTANDO THE VILLAGE, STRENGTHENING OUR WARRIOR SPIRIT” – REFLECTIONS ON BODIES, TERRITORIES AND ENCHANTMENT IN THE ANACÉ RETAKING

Abstract

Since the 1990s, the Brazilian state has invested resources in the establishment of the Industrial and Port Complex of Pecém, located to the west of Fortaleza, Ceará. Nonetheless, this area belongs to part of the territory of the Anacé indigenous people, who, in the process of resistance towards the socio-environmental impacts, have mobilized multiple actions to guarantee their rights to exist. Among these actions, there taking of land have been a practice under taken by part of the Anacé people who continue to claim for the demarcation of the indigenous land. In this context, we conducted a study about the Anacé retaking of land carried out from 2015 to 2019, seeking to understand them as a political, symbolic and social practice that acts on bodies, enchanted people and territories, weaving other possibilities for the present and the future. By retaking their territories, the Anacé people promote a self-demarcation of the land and of themselves, freeing the enchantments and the flows of life from their imprisonments imposed by Western capitalist modernity.