“MEMORY WEAVERS”: THE INDIGENOUS WOMEN OF ACRE BREAKING UP REPRESENTATIONS

Abstract

This paper discusses the political processes of the indigenous women of the state of Acre to break away from the representations created about them, understanding these processes as forms of resistance to the colonial legacies that were imposed on them over the years through the creation of the terms gender and race. In this sense, the present article aims to analyze the actions of indigenous women in Acre in their communities, and outside them, visualizing their protagonism and confrontations with society and the State. The methodology used is qualitative research and analysis of the documents found in the digital library of the Digital Library (BNDigital) and the online collection of the site of the Museum of the Indian, which provided access to recorded memories of some women. For the theoretical foundation we used works by historians and anthropologists, such as Almeida (2010), Almeida; Cruz (2017), Lugones (2010), among other authors, establishing a dialogue between their work and the sources. Through the results found it was possible to glimpse the misconceptions present in the representations of these women, by eclausing them in descriptions of prey and subservience.