Uma etnografia da organização social da aldeia Laranjeira, terra indígena potiguara, Baía da Traição-PB

Abstract

The Laranjeira village is located in the Potiguara Indigenous Land, in the municipalityy of Baia da Traição, on the northern coast of Paraíba. According to the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (SESAI) approximately 230 peaple in 83 families reside in the village, whose main economic activities are organized around agriculture, with sugarcene being the main commercial plantation, but not the only one, I will discuss other strategies such as source of income. This paper seeks to identify and understand how these families organize themselves and what strategies they mobilize in their daily lives to ensure their economic and social reproduction. Our methodology used interviews, life stories of former residents, addressing the social and product organization of village life. I organized and was inspired by studies that reported domestic groups of different peoples, such as the theoretical methodological approach presented by the following authors: Mura and Barbosa (2011), Tassinari (2003), Palitot (2011), Ferreira (2007) Coutinho (2014) and Vieira (2010).