Violência indígena na Paraíba: conflitos culturais e religiosos no âmbito universitário

Abstract

The present research deals with the violence in the academic trajectory of indigenous Potiguara and Tabajara, from Paraíba, addressing the social and political problems faced with the stigmas experienced in the academic environment, as well as the difficulties related to the process of entering and staying at the university. For that, it was essential to reflect on symbolic violence in the university sphere, in order to comprehend how it presents itself, since it can occur in a disguised way, negatively impacting on the academic performance, evidencing a problematic latent, little notified in the official information system – SINAI Net. The general objectives were: to investigate the determining factors in the violence process faced by Potiguara and Tabajara university students and whether academic, cultural and religious practices are determinant factors to the symbolic established; to analyze data interpersonal violence and self-harm involving indigenous people as victims reported in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN Net). This study was carried out with Potiguara and Tabajara indigenous scholars residents in Baía da Traição, Rio Tinto, Marcação, Conde e João Pessoa. It is theoretically based on authors such as: Barcellos (2014); Farias e Barcellos (2015); Durkheim (2018); Bourdieu (2012); Oliveira (2016); Silveira (2018). The approach of this research is qualitative and quantitative and it uses ethnography as a guiding methodology. In data collection, interviews and semi-structured questionnaires were used as instruments in addition to the use of audio recording. The methodology was based on authors such as Lüdke e André (1986); Geertz (1989). As a result, it was comprehended that all the historical context and trajectories permeated by struggles, demands and achievement inside academic spaces of the indigenous students of Paraíba, in terms of stigmatization of the individual, remain a process of continuous and multiple coping. At the end of the study, it was ratified the presence of violence, whether symbolic, in moral and psychological form, as well as the denial, exclusion and non-acceptance of indigenous population in public and private Universities.