“A gente senta e vai escrever”: apropriação de práticas de letramento e da cultura escrita no desenvolvimento de Projetos Sociais Xakriabá

Abstract

This paper analyzes appropriation processes of literacy practices and writing culture by Xakriabá Indigenous people, when elaborating social projects submitted to calls for public grants aiming the development of the villages. Such processes are understood as part of the social projects indigenization movement, while recognizing the Xakriabá’s willingness to incorporate these practices into their own world system. By operating in the Xakriabá’s relationship with the written culture through the interpenetration of orality and writing, the appropriation forges a participatory writing that composes the projects indigenization movement. Beginning with a writing that was more dependent on external partners, the subjects come to trust the Indigenous teachers, and,finally, use writing themselves, assuming its composition, with their mysteries, rituals, restrictions, and possibilities: “we sit and get to writing”