Jogos desportivos do Triângulo Tukano: o esporte como fator de interculturalidade.

Abstract

This study propose a reflexion turned to Tukano Triangle, in order to understand the interconections among the streenghtening sociociocultural, identity and intercultural dialogues in the region. For better understanding, we are looking for indentify the desportivy practice developed in this region, to evidence the historic of Tukano Triangle creation, the socials subjects that realized the play, the motivation to realize the event, and also verify witch way the play contribute to interculturals conversations. This research understand the Taracua, Iauaretêand Pari Cachoeira comunities, in the Alto Rio Negro, region witch belongs to Tukano Triangle in the São Gabriel da Cachoeira town. The meteodology used was interdisciplinar, combining field research to bibliografy research, using as referencials base dissertations, theses, papers, scientific journals, that approachesquestions related to the theme, beyond the documents analisy, such as, historic of law creations witch regulates the players. Among other metodologic resources, were realized semiestructured interviews under the perspective story to listen the indigenous leaders and the event organizators, athletes and ex-athletes. The socials subject the contributed to researches were composed by leadership, athletes and ex-athletes indigenous natural of Pari Cachoeira, Iauaretê and Taracuá. The researches presented indicatives witch were relevant to our reflection, before which we can consider that indigenous comunities of Tukano Triangle, when they appropriate of the sport, transformed them in a important vehicle of cultural transformation, data that contribute to the coletive identity, enabling the intercultural dialogue, Beyong to colaborated to return old practices indigenous desportives that have fallen in desuse for a long period by virtue of colonization process in the region. Although admittedly in past period the national sports had been one of the big villains that colaborated to suppress the traditional plays, the belief and the costums, the rituals and other activities that used to be part of the universe of the indigenous experience, in the contemporaneity the sport emerges as a tool of cultural resistance, data that allows incorporate a traditional characteristc of Tukano's triangle people.