The use of cultural mapping as a tool for building a historiography of Indigenous Peoples from the Kapinawá People

Abstract

This article aims to analyze material produced by indigenous people of the Kapinawá people in partnership with the Luiz Freire Center and the National Policy for Territorial and Environmental Management in Indigenous Lands, called “Time and Earth: mapping indigenous territory Kapinawá”. Analyzing cultural mapping as a tool for the construction and dissemination of indigenous people in the history of Brazil, and specifically the Northeast. We start from a bibliographical selection with authors who dedicated part of their research to the Kapinawá and cultural mapping, such as ANDRADE (2014), BARBOSA (1987) and SAMPAIO (1995; 1997), as well as authors who question historiographical practice such as NAVARRETE LINARES (2020). We consider three sections, in the first we briefly present the Kapinawá People. Next, we work on the concepts of cultural mapping, indigenous locality and territoriality, seeking to bring these closer to historical science. Finally, we analyze the aforementioned work, looking for elements of a historiography that considers and contributes to the understanding of the complexities inherent to the original peoples, specifically the Kapinawá. We believe that the cultural mapping methodology contributes considerably to the historical thinking and affirmation of indigenous peoples in Brazil.