A beiradeira e o grilador: ocupação no oeste do Pará / The beiradeiraand the grilador: ocupation and conflict in West Pará

AUTOR(ES)

Mauricio Gonsalves Torres

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Like so many other Amazonian extractivists, the populations of Montanha and Mangabal trace their beginnings back to the first rubber cycle in the mid XIXth century when some of their ancestors installed themselves along the banks of the Upper Tapajos. Since then they have survived the debt bondage of the river trading system, the uncertain times that followed the end of the rubber epoch, the end of the trade in animal skins, the arrival and eventual collapse of the goldmining camps, malaria, mercury contamination and whatever else fate threw at them. In the 1970s many of them were expelled, often with violence, from part of their territory, by the creation of the Amazonia National Park. They resisted this too and regrouped further upriver. The 1970s also brought a worsening of landgrabbing practices, as a result of the goldmining and the building of the BR-163 highway. This led the inhabitants of Montanha and Mangabal to concentrate their dwellings on the left bank of the Tapajos and together, resist the pressures brought to bear on them. A Parana-based company called Indussolo then appeared on the scene. Armed with a court sentence, they obtained the Torrens register, an archaic and extremely rare form of land title, which legitimised their unchallengeable claim to the land . In this way they obtained an area of 1.138.000 hectares, which included almost all the land of the inhabitants of Montanha and Mangabeira. Again, these populations resisted expulsion, until in 2006 the federal prosecutors office brought a civic case against the legitimacy of the Torrens register, in defence of the ancestral rights of occupation of the existing populations. The elaboration of a land survey to demonstrate the scale of the fraud practised by the company was the origin of this thesis. The continuing practice of a lively oral tradition among the population enabled the accurate mapping of eight generations, born and buried in their lands

ASSUNTO(S)

grilagem de terras (pará - região oeste) conflict land (pará - west side) conflito fundiário (pará - região oeste) rio tapajós tapajós river "grilagem" of land (pará - west side) traditional populations (pará - west side) amazon amazônia populações tradicionais(pará - região oeste)

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