PATAXÓ INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF COROA VERMELHA: A PLURIACTIVITY COMMUNITY, A SYMBOLIC SITE OF BELONGING
Pataxó. Pluriativity. Economy. Local Development.
The Pataxó de Coroa Vermelha indigenous community has its own characteristics, given the peculiarities of its formation, and through the process of modernization and development through which the region where it is inserted has experienced. There are clear reasons for moving through the pluriactivity area, in relation to the community studied, as it was possible to identify that the members of the Pataxó indigenous community of Coroa Vermelha (CIPCV) have some occupational and income-generating activities, among which we highlight agriculture, fishing, handicrafts and commerce, in addition to wage labor. The idea of local development does not aim to compete or even replace the capitalist development model, it aims to insert in the economic context those localities (neighborhoods, cities, regions, countries) that, for some reason, have not yet achieved the expected development to provide its citizens the desirable quality of life. Certainly, the CIPCV can be studied from several perspectives. Here we studied the economic activities practiced by the Pataxós families in the search for income, which contribute to the subsistence of these family units. With regard to indigenous school education, changes in curricula and pedagogical practices are necessary so that all individuals acquire a level of training and develop learning about work that will enable them to obtain a job, preserving their identity. The objective of this work is research in the indigenous community of Coroa Vermelha, the economic pluriactivity developed by the Pataxós and how they contribute to local development in the municipalities of Santa Cruz de Cabrália and Porto Seguro - Bahia, also considering their way of exist. Use of qualitative and exploratory methodology, with field visit and oral history to support bibliographic research. The results obtained show that the CIPCV is pluriactive, that the Pataxós of the Extreme South of Bahia form a Symbolic Site of Belonging, and that their presence, economic activities and way of existing contribute to the strengthening of tourist activity and local development.