Territory and territorialities of peoples and “traditional communities” in Brazil: an approach

Abstract

The present work has for objective to present a small panorama of the territories and territorialities of the Traditional Peoples and Communities in Brazil from the analysis of the traditionally occupied lands, defi ned by the common use of the land. Thus, in the geohistorical perspective, we will point out the refl ections of the theoretical and legal fi eld that involve territorial rights built from the demands and pressures of social movements that imposed a political agenda of the territorial approach in the construction of collective, ethnic, territorial and diff use rights. The methodological procedures took place from the performance of a thorough and critical bibliographic review of the subject in question, from geographers to anthropologists, as well as from documentary and legal sources. As a result, one can see, after the balance and panorama of the issue that, even with the construction of a theoretical and legal framework in Brazil about Traditional Peoples and Communities and the materialization of public policies, there is, in contemporary times, a setback in the enforcement of rights, marked by a dismantling of these policies, built by social struggles.