Etnoturismo comunitário na Lagoa Encantada. Etnogênese JenipapoKanindé/Aquiraz-Ceará

Abstract

The thesis analyses the sociohistorical process of formation and development of the community ethnotourism of the Jenipapo-Kanindé ethnic group, located in the Indigenous Land (TI) Lagoa Encantada, in the municipality of Aquiraz, Ceará, demarcated in 2008. The research focused on the strategies developed for the strengthening of their ethnic identity, ethnodevelopment projects and political actions. Through the analysis of case studies and life histories, the involvement of leaderships with community tourism (participation in TUCUM Network and museological projects) and political participation in the indigenous movement, at the state and national levels. The perspective made possible a different look at the processes of identity and cultural reelaboration, starting from tourism. This view assumes that identity is thought and constructed, not homogeneously, despite the existence of globalization, because there are differences, contradictions and internal segmentations that provide a diversified, unstable, situationally created and fragmented character, causing it to not operate as totality, uniformity and standardization. The problem of the study turned to the understanding of how is practiced the tourism by the Jenipapo-Kanindé Indians. In this line of reasoning, it was investigated which agents and agencies contributed to the social construction of the tourist reality among these indigenous.