This work is a study about two Mundurukú communities, Praia do Índio e Praia
do Mangue. They are located in urban area in Itaituba – PA, Brazil. The contact between
tribal and national societies, planted a lot of problems, prejudicing the social group’s own
reproduction. However these groups making an effort to recreate their Mundurukú identity
through Mundurukú language teaching in their Indians schools. This study was coming true during the Socials Science Master Program course of
Universidade Federal do Pará, in Anthropology subject, from March 2006 to March 2008. The research was divided in two stages. The fist one consisted in researches in libraries,
bookshops and internet about specific Anthropology texts. The second stage was fieldwork
in Itaituba’s Indian communities. Two months were taking during the University breaking
periods. However I stayed more four months before the Master Course start too. Twelve
families representing 258 people were interviewed.
The results of this research showed the Mundurukú traditional institutions can
adapt themselves to the urban situation. A new social order was born due to the interaction
and contact with national society. This new social order keeps traditional Mundurukú and
national society features. In this urban context, despite of everything, we can see that the
Mundurukú traditional institutions mainly keep marking their powers spaces that are still
governed by kinship, by clans and by Mundurukú local leaderships ('cacicado').
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