Resumo

BAIRRAO, J. F. M. H.. Protagonismo epistêmico dos povos indígenas: o papel da etnopsicología. Psicol. Am. Lat. [online]. 2017, n.spe, pp.53-62. ISSN 1870-350X.

The threats to the survival of the indigenous peoples are a challenge whose complexity and gravity interdict the omission of Psychology. However, psychological interventions may inadvertently, rather than remedy, turn into poison. It happens when there is no dialogue with the native psychological ethnotheories. In this case, indigenous peoples are deprived of their understanding of themselves and of the world they inhabit and they are destroyed in the core of their being. An ethnopsychological approach prevents and avoids this risk, as it allows access not only to a record of the facts, but also to a recovery of native antidotes against this threat. An ethnopsychological approach to the current challenges that the commitment of Psychology relative to the native peoples implies, evidences that they are not restricted to the physical extermination and the looting of the territories (space) of these populations, but also threaten them in time, aiming to suppress their Past and make their future unfeasible. In order to counteract this, it is necessary to pay attention to the performative nature of the psychological statements about indigenous peoples and to ensure not only the preservation of the remnants, their memory and their becoming, but also that of their dead ones and of their worlds.

Palavras-chave : Ethnopsychology; Indigenous Peoples; Psychology and Politics.

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