In this work it is discussed the Gavião People from the Indigenous Land Mãe Maria, that lives
by the southeast region from Pará State, and their process of contact and appropriation of
information and communication technologies. It is analyzed that contact and appropriation
movement of the TIC’s (acronym for Information and communication technologies) from the
indigenous community Akrôtikatêjê, comprised in the Gavião People, and the cultural and
social consequences that comes with this process. The search used the ethnography method and
one of its branches known as “netnography”, which made possible the deepening in terms of
cultural, history and societies comprehension of the Gavião People from the Indigenous Land
Mãe Maria and the historical process of technologies capture considering the respective
indigenous reserve. Moreover, the research shows that the Gavião People, when appropriate the
TIC’s, are performing by their way the “modernity indigenization” (Sahlins, 1999) process, in
which they resignify the ways to relate with these technologies from their lifeways. This work
concludes that the information and communication technologies are tools that has gradually
contributing for the process of visibility, fight for rights and political emancipation of the
Gavião People from the Indigenous Land Mãe Maria.
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