Banca de DEFESA: MAIZA SOARES DA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MAIZA SOARES DA SILVA
DATE: 08/08/2025
TIME: 17:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

LIVING AND EXPERIENCING THE PLACE IN KAXARARI/RO INDIGENOUS LANDS

KEY WORDS:

Kaxarari, Place, House, Phenomenology, Perception

PAGES: 88
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SUMMARY:

This work proposes a reflection on the spatial, affective, and symbolic expressions of the Kaxarari Indigenous people, based on a reading of the house and the act of dwelling. From a perspective grounded in Humanistic Geography, the philosophy of Buen Vivir, and phenomenology, the research seeks to understand Indigenous senses of place beyond materialities and cartographic boundaries, considering lived space as a relational, affective, and symbolic construction. By adopting place as a central category, the study offers a decolonial and sensitive reading of Amazonian spaces. The methodology articulates the Geography of Listening, participant observation, and discursive semiotics, while also integrating briefing as a tool for analyzing communicational processes. The results reaffirm the centrality of the house as a space of intimacy and sacredness—more than a shelter, it is an extension of the body and the subject’s history, functioning as a space of interiority and cultural transmission, highlighting corporeality as a fundamental dimension in the constitution of both territory and place. Within it, daily teachings, culinary practices, and conversations that tell their stories take place. Thus, the Kaxarari house emerges as a place of resistance and cultural reclamation, where ancestral heritage dialogues with modernity. By recognizing and foregrounding ancestral narratives and knowledge, the research opens pathways for the construction of diverse geographies, committed to territorial justice and the appreciation of the original peoples of the Pan-Amazon.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - MÁRCIA ALVES SOARES DA SILVA - UFMT
Presidente - 396900 - JOSUE DA COSTA SILVA
Interno - ***.978.969-** - NILSON CESAR FRAGA - UFPR
Externa à Instituição - RACHEL DOURADO DA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - ÉDER RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS