CHRISTIAN INDIGENISMO: FIRST the SOUL, LATER the LAND!

The contact between different cultures in the State of the Mato Grosso do Sul finished provoking a frictional area Interétnica (Oliveira, 1972:17), where if it assimilates for all the angles, the values of the other. The missioner project that if presents today with a new roupagem to the aboriginals in the State still is responsible, to the side of the capital, for the continuous political-social transfiguration of the aboriginal communities. To the step that the Calvinist Christianity if crystallizes through the missions, the protestant moral finishes for feeding the spirit of the society of consumption in the aboriginal societies. The constant search for the salvation of the soul if becomes the central idea in imaginary the social aboriginal, nailed for the not-indian, specifically for the "missions" United States sponsors of many alternative indigenistas projects (Baines, 1998: 1-15). The social organization total is conditioned to the materiality drawn for the ideology Jewish-Christian, reorganized for the protestant seitas in the ticket of century XX for the XXI. We speak of a unilateral preservation that results absolutely in perceivable transformations in the way of living of these communities.

The Christian ideology shocks with the ancestral organization of the etnias, fleeing itself the vindictive spirit of fight and of the aboriginal citizens catequizados/evangelizados by the land. This makes with that the aboriginal leaderships, inside of its new organizations, focus the salvacionista speech in detriment of the fight for the land that comes them economically condemning for centuries. We say of a process of vital pleasant alienation, cômoda and for the needy survival of some "benefited" communities for these flags of Christ. He is well-known that the evangelic actions and catholic in the regions of the west of the State come if presenting of great value for the aboriginal population (mainly about infantile nutricionalidade), but is also necessary to clarify that this type of effective action alone if thanks to the incapacity to promote the quarrel of the essential element of the aboriginal question in the Mato Grosso of the South: the land. A net of phenomena (argued in academic scope) politician-economic conservatives who make impracticable the development of one coherent indigenista politics with the terrenas things, visible and concrete, as it is the case of the death for malnutrition between children in the region of Golden. In this "new" social order one another phenomenon is basic so that let us understand history aboriginal: the transformation of the material culture in merchandise (Menezes, 2006). The material culture passes to be developed for the promotion of the money accumulation, as form to pledge the work force to remain itself existing, exactly that very below of the line of the poverty. The fact is that the advent of this type of merchandise is directed for third, that if they worry in adquiriz them for the reproduction of the capital. Developing a domination picture dialectic that orbit rocking between salvacionista ideário and material corollary of the political-social organization of the apodrecido State (FUNAI). Or either, the predestination of the soul, that is identified in the good to live socioeconômico, starts to be cerne of the action politics spiritual of the aboriginal communities in detriment of the fight for the salvation of the land in favor of the self-sustainment of the society. E, still, of the elimination of the mortality tax which certainly will not take them to the kingdom of Iavé, guided for the market and the mercantilização of its culture.

Jean Menezes is professor of History and Philosophy for the IMES/FAFICA-SP, with extension in Archaeology for the USP and Brazilian Historiography, History and Culture for the UNESP. Currently it is Master in Education for the UTCD/PY and master in History for the UFGD.

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Bibliography cited in the article:
BAINES, Stephen Grant. Images of Aboriginal Leadership and the Waimiri-Atroari Program. XXII Annual Meeting of the ANPOCS: Aboriginal Etnologia, 1998. MENEZES, Jean Pablo Pear tree of. The Transformation of the Material Culture in Merchandise. Semester meeting of the Cultural Center Informative Shout of Is São José of the Rio Preto; São Paulo, 2006.
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