The Guarani presence in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: notes for a review from the intercultural dialogue

Desde seus per??odos iniciais a arqueologia estabeleceu rela????es entre as popula????es nativas vivas e os grupos do passado. Ao longo dos s??culos, diferentes paradigmas geraram diferentes concep????es sobre os ind??genas. De um passado vinculado aos processos coloniais e pressupostos evolucionistas, a arqueologia passou a desenvolver uma aproxima????o mais intensa com as popula????es ind??genas ap??s a d??cada de 80. Essa mudan??a de abordagem resultou em uma abertura para a participa????o ativa de grupos ind??genas na pr??tica arqueol??gica. No Brasil, os reflexos dessa tend??ncia surgiram na mesma d??cada. Gradualmente a ruptura entre as popula????es amer??ndias atuais e os grupos do passado foi sendo desconstru??da. A etnoarqueologia Guarani passou a ser uma fonte importante para o estudo dos grupos pr??-coloniais, entretanto, as potencialidades e as limita????es dessa abordagem ainda carecem de estudos. A presente pesquisa se disp??e a contribuir com esse movimento, buscando reconhecer a vis??o dos Mby??-Guarani sobre as informa????es acerca do seu passado geradas no meio acad??mico. E a partir disso compreender aspectos sobre a rela????o entre os Guarani do passado (estudados pela arqueologia) e os Mby??-Guarani atuais (abordados pela etnologia). Essa abordagem etnoarqueologica contou com a participa????o das comunidades Mby??-Guarani relacionadas com a regi??o de Pelotas.Since its early periods archeology has established relations between the living native populations and the groups of the past. Over the centuries different paradigms had generated different conceptions about the indigenous. Coming from a past linked to colonial processes and evolutionary assumptions archeology began to develop a more intense approach with indigenous people after the 80s. This shift in approach has paved the way for the active participation of indigenous groups in archaeological practice. In Brazil the consequences of this trend emerged in the same decade. Gradually the rupture between the current amerindian population groups and the past ones was deconstructed. The Guarani ethnoarchaeology became an important source of tools when studying the pre-colonial groups, however, the potentialies and limitations of this approach still lack studies. This research sets out to contribute to this movement. We seek to acknowledge the Mby??-Guarani's point of view about their academically generated past information and, from that acknowledgment, to understand aspects of the relationship among the past Guarani studied by archeology and current Mby??-Guarani covered in ethnology. This ethnoarchaeological approach has counted with the participation of Pelotas area related Mby??-Guarani communities