DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS BETWEEN GUARANI AND KAIOWÁ IN THE 1970S AND 1980S: An analysis through dependency theory
In the 1970s, Fundação Nacional do Índio started using community development as a methodology for the economic projects that it has implemented among indigenous populations since the first half of the 20th century. The Guarani and Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul have benefited from some of these projects, which scarce results part of anthropology sought to investigate through the question “why do the development projects between the Guarani and Kaiowá fail?”. Based on the assumption that the answers presented bring significant contributions to understand central aspects of the phenomenon, but do not face issues that go beyond the theoretical field of anthropology, we reformulated the question, seeking to answer: what economic relations the appearance of development projects between the Guarani and Kaiowá hide? Our hypothesis is that these arise to meet the reproduction needs of local and national capital, also subscribing to trends that respond to the needs of the world capitalist system in a context in which the territory of Mato Grosso do Sul and, therefore, guarani and kaiowá, was increasingly inserted into the global dynamics of production. Due to its ability to systematize these trends, we used the theory of dependency as a theoretical framework.