Tanaru Memory

A pari passu Coulangean parallel of Territory, Capitalist Thanatopolitics and the Uncertain Fate of Gleba Corumbiara

Abstract

Currently, the Tanaru indigenous land is under restricted use, established by Ordinance No. 1,040 issued by FUNAI on October 16, 2015. The death of the Tanaru indigenous people began the strenuous discussion about the fate to be given to the land. On the one hand, farmers are legally discussing ownership of the land, on the other, there is a need to preserve the Tanaru memory and legacy, so that the dignity of indigenous peoples is maintained. The most recent judicial conclusion on the case is contained in ADPF 991 MC-AGR/DF, in which the rapporteur and minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Edson Fachin, decided to maintain Ordinance No. 1,040/2015/FUNAI and determines that the Union presents an action plan to regularize and protect the indigenous lands of isolated and recently contacted peoples. The study uses the dialectical-deductive method and bibliographical research to analyze how capitalist interests interfere in the preservation of the memory contained in the Tanaru indigenous land and why its future is still uncertain. The work also succinctly evaluates Fustel de Coulanges' conception of territory, relating it to the work À Cidade Antiga, to the life of the indigenous people of the “hole”; and the analysis of the thanatopolitics of capital as a policy that deals with the management of the death of unwanted people or groups, and its relationship with the interest in Tanaru indigenous lands.