Epistemo-Political Decolonization: Reflections from the Brazilian and Bolivian Cases towards an Intercultural Politics

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com an agonistic relationship between the legal, administrative construction spaces and the mythical, territorial, symbolic universes of indigenous groups (Bolivia) and quilombola groups (Brazil). The pertinence of such comparative potential is justified here, in that the two experiences seem to reveal different potentials of dialogue between these dimensions. Our major undertaking here is to demonstrate both forward and backward movement in both cases. Next, it is necessary to try to understand to what extent the two social complexes aimed at a not simple task of recognition of their territories and social practices. According to the elements here concerning the quilombola question, they are the result of our fieldwork under the conditions of anthropologists experts appointed by INCRA (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform) to construct anthropological reports identifying these communities. Between 2009 and 2014 we had the challenge of participating in the construction of anthropological reports in the state of Sergipe1. The fieldwork carried out with the communities of Caraíbas (Canhoba municipality of Canhoba), Ladeiras (municipality of Japoatã) and Forte (municipality of Cumbe) is taken as the basis for the discussion of the existing disjunctions between the mythological-territorial structure and the legal administrative emplacement destined to such communities. In this sense, the objective here is to deal with the not uncommon difficulty of technical operators in the perception of the native quilombola language. The historical, political and social genesis about the quilombola case, presented in the present manuscript, are built on the basis of the historiographical and anthropological literature specialized [3-7].