Geographicity in the work diaries of indigenous agroforestry agents of Acre

Abstract

This article analyzes the training process of indigenous agroforestry agents, a professional category focused on the territorial and environmental management of indigenous lands and their surroundings. The research is located in the Western Brazilian Amazon, with an emphasis on the state of Acre. It investigates how these agents, who belong to recently literate groups, use work diaries to record in indigenous languages and in Portuguese social, cultural and environmental practices that make up their educational and professional paths. The diaries, composed of texts, maps and drawings, reveal a specific geographicity, anchored in the daily experience of the agroforestry agent and in their relationship with the territory. Such records attribute new social meanings to the use of alphabetic writing, cartographic representation and figurative drawings, which, when appropriated by the communities, become part of the local cultural dynamics. In this context, diaries are understood as pedagogical, cultural and political devices, allowing the expression of indigenous aesthetics, the documentation of knowledge and the reinscription of their stories through their own narratives.