Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-04-26T00:14:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaGoreteNunesPereira_DISSERT.pdf: 8210726 bytes, checksum: d2e26680ce5c019f2541aa9ab6c60ba2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-28T21:00:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaGoreteNunesPereira_DISSERT.pdf: 8210726 bytes, checksum: d2e26680ce5c019f2541aa9ab6c60ba2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T21:00:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaGoreteNunesPereira_DISSERT.pdf: 8210726 bytes, checksum: d2e26680ce5c019f2541aa9ab6c60ba2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-04 / O processo de autoafirma??o ?tnica ind?gena no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte ? bem recente e tem se apresentado como contraponto ? historiografia oficial que nega a presen?a desses atores sociais no Estado. O objetivo dessa pesquisa ? investigar um grupo que se autoafirma como Potiguara, na praia de Sagi (RN), valorizando aspectos relacionados ? sua identidade, organiza??o social e processo de territorializa??o. Al?m de seus objetivos etnogr?ficos, fazendo uso da observa??o participante e da produ??o de um conjunto de entrevistas, o trabalho analisa, em especial, a gera??o de uma hist?ria de origem, baseada no parentesco e na territorializa??o, da invisibilidade ? reorganiza??o identit?ria em meio de conflitos e demandas por reconhecimento ?tnico. / The process of indigenous ethnic self-assertion in the State of Rio Grande do Norte is very recent and have been represented as a counterpoint to the official historiography denying the presence of these social actors in the state. The purpose of this research is to investigate a group that identify themselves as Potiguara on the beach of Sagi (RN), valuing aspects related to their identity, social organization and territorial process. In addition to its ethnographic purposes, using the participant observation and the production of a set of interviews, the work analyzes, in particular, the generation of a history of origin, based on kinship and territorialization, from invisibility to identity reorganization amid conflicts and demands for ethnic recognition.