Entre economia coletiva e individual: um estudo sobre a organização doméstica entre os Tabajara da Barra de Gramame

Abstract

This ethnography is about the process of social organization of Tabajara indigenous people from Paraíba. Focusing on the analysis of domestic activities organization and identitary process. Looking to estabilish a multiscale, to a certain intention, the work presents the categories of basic understanding, domestic organization of this group and their development in other social scales with acuity of divide models of postulation and models of action in those. The empirical analysis restricts to the Tabajara Household cluster, located at Barra de Gramame. At this juncture, the observation of actions, intentions, conflicts and cultural conceptions coming from Tabajara individuals and their relations with distinct groups, but in permanent contact, in the same geographycal space, helped to grasp the process of local political formation; this being fundamental to give meaning to diverse experiences of the individuals and administrate the identitary process.