“Quando a gente fica muito aqui vai perdendo aquelas energias, né?” Mobilidade e espaços de pertencimento entre os Pankararé em São Paulo

Abstract

The author presents the circuits that Pankararé indigenous group establish between Bahia and Sao Paulo. The paper discusses the processes of articulation and production of an indigenous space in the city. The author analyses how the urban segment of Pankararé manages to (re)assert its cultural, social and political agency, in the new urban areas thank to the maintenance of mobility dynamics between the homeland and the city. Through continuous flows of things, articulation of concepts such as territory, space and memory they produce heterogeneous networks and cultural creativity.