Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:54:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ClaudiaMMS.pdf: 8469999 bytes, checksum: 6956d2b0e49cfbe30a05f4efa584bcdd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-24 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The south region of the Rio Grande do Norte has been historically recognized as a place of old indian villages. Inhabitants of the edges of the Catu River, border between the cities of Canguaretama and Goianinha, the Eleot?rios in the threshold of 21st century had passed to be seen and self recognized as "remaining indians" of the RN. Their ethnic mobilizations, when becoming public had placed to the intellectual and political fields an old question to be reflected on: the asseverations concerning the "indian disappearing" in the State. This item brings with it other implications. Accessed by a para-oficial indigenism, the Eleot?rios had started to establish political relations with the Potiguara indians of the Ba?a da Trai??o/PB and the Indian Movement, feeling stimulated to produce and to reproduce forms of social differentiation. In this context, this research is worried about elucidating the process of construction of the ethnicity among the Eleot?rios, percepted from the social relations and politics kept with the amplest society, into a particular historical situation involving sugar cane fields owners, proprietaries, militants, researchers, ambiental agencies. The effects of these political and social relations had been extended, making Eleot?rios appear to the society as susceptible social actors to the specific policies for the aboriginal populations / A regi?o sul do Rio Grande do Norte tem sido, historicamente, reconhecida como l?cus de antigos aldeamentos ind?genas. Os habitantes das margens do rio Catu, divisa entre os munic?pios de Canguaretama e Goianinha, os Eleot?rios, no limiar do s?culo XXI, passaram a ser vistos e a se auto reconhecer como remanescentes ind?genas do RN. As suas mobiliza??es ?tnicas, ao se tornarem p?blicas, colocaram no campo intelectual e pol?tico uma antiga quest?o a ser refletida: as assevera??es acerca do desaparecimento ind?gena no Estado. Tal item traz em si outras implica??es. Acessados por um indigenismo p?ra-oficial, os Eleot?rios passaram a estabelecer rela??es pol?ticas com os ?ndios Potiguara da Ba?a da Trai??o/PB, Movimento Ind?gena. Diante disso, eles sentiram-se estimulados a produzir e a (re)produzir formas de diferencia??o social. Nesse contexto, a pesquisa, aqui exposta, envereda no sentido de elucidar o processo de constru??o da etnicidade dos Eleot?rios, vistos a partir das rela??es sociais e pol?ticas mantidas com a sociedade mais ampla, situadas numa determinada situa??o hist?rica, envolvendo usineiros, posseiros, militantes, pesquisadores, ag?ncias ambientais. Os efeitos destas rela??es sociais e pol?ticas se ampliaram, fazendo com que os Eleot?rios aparecessem para sociedade como atores sociais suscet?veis ?s pol?ticas espec?ficas das popula??es ind?genas