Sons, torés e toantes da corrida do imbu: afirmação e reafirmação do ser indígena Pankararu

Abstract

We, the native peoples, fight daily to be able to exist within our specificities and particularities. We live in constant attacks on our territories, cultures, bodies and original rights, since the beginning of the invasion in the year 1500. In this sense, the present dissertation appears as a political act of resistance, of struggle, of an indigenous militant movement, evidencing my ethnic condition as an indigenous Pankararu. The imbu race is the main ritual of the Pankararu people, which happens annually with the arrival of the imbu fruit crop, and lasts approximately three months from its beginning when the first imbus of the crop is closed. It is a celebration of life, of respect to all the living and enchanted beings that inhabit this planet. Our traditional territory is located in the high Pernambuco hinterland between the municipalities of Jatobá, Petrolândia and Tacaratu, an area of 14,294 hectares with a population of 8,184 people (Siasi/Sesai, 2014). This research, carried out in the villages Saco dos Barros, Brejo dos Padres and Serrinha, (places where the ritual takes place) aimed to identify/present how the ritual of the imbu race appears in the processes of affirming the Pankararu identity, reaffirmation and strengthening of being and being indigenous Pankararu. From an ethnomusicological approach and an indigenous perspective, I propose reflections on issues/topics such as spirituality, education, identity, territory, culture, politics and stories, highlighting some aspects of ritualistic musical making present in the Pankararu ritual.