Interethnic relations and territorialization processes, essay on an ethnographic experience among the Pataxó from the Barra Velha do Monte Pascoal Indigenous Land

Abstract

Where does an ethnographic experience begin and end? Based on this methodological question, this essay aims to discuss the process of anthropological making. The work arises from the reflections that were born during the researcher’s one-year stay (between 2021 and 2022) with the Pataxó people of Barra, in the South of Bahia. The present essay seeks to demonstrate the process of the construction of ethnographic research on this reality, as well as to approach the complexity of the experience of living daily with an indigenous community in the context of the conflict. Finally, this paper seeks to rethink the ability of our discipline to function in contexts and realities that connect various fields, always seeking to strengthen decolonial practices and approaches.