A fabricação de mártires-encantados e suas apropriações por coletivos rurais e indígenas

Abstract

The article focuses the appropriation of the images of pastoral workers, religious agents, trade-union and indigenous lead-ers murdered in regions of intense land conflict. The focus on the images representing those leaders and the narratives associated to them opens the possibility of ethnographic approaches, as they articulate different speeches about the topic of the struggle for land. Thus, the investment in understanding the production of such images and narratives aims at comprehending the modalities of translation of the meanings attributed to those violent deaths in regions of land conflicts, especially in what comes to the sense they have as foundations for the acts of struggle and resistance.