Abstract

ALMEIDA VAZ FILHO, Florêncio. O intelectual indígena nascido da teologia da libertação. Avá [online]. 2018, n.33, pp.35-56. ISSN 1851-1694.

The author makes a self-ethnographic account of his trajectory as an indigenous intellectual, showing the decisive influence that his theological and political choices had on Liberation Theology, a current of thought that had a great influence in sectors of the Catholic Church in Latin America between the 1970s and 1990. As part of the context, the politicization of broad social sectors and civil rights struggles after the Dictatorship, as well as the mobilizations of indigenous movements during the 500th anniversary of the conquest of the Americas, stand out. So he followed the formation as a Franciscan friar, his career in Anthropology, which led him to studies on history, culture and indigenous identity. Research and action within the Church, in a region where the Indians were believed to have disappeared, eventually favored the emergence of an indigenous movement, which today involves 70 villages and 12 indigenous peoples.

Keywords : Indigenous Intelectual; Liberation Theology; Amazonia; Autoethnography.

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