The Xerente: structure, history and politics

Abstract

The field of the politics among Xerente dialogues with their social structure and here it is approached starting from their space distribution in dozens of relatively autonomous settlements. The foundation of settlements replicates and strengthens a social structure that operates by opposition between sides or groups. A society so fragmented, however, is capable of concerted action in the defense of collective interests. Unless in these fleeting events, however, the interests of the groups are heeded and the political representation is suspicious. The social memory, replete by the histories of the bad choice, when they had throw away the goods of the whites, one see mobilized for an approach of the public policy and in the way of doing politics of the whites, where again they appear in groups, because this is the own form of being Akwe Ktabi.