Frontiers and Identities: indigenous peoples in the triple border between Brazil-Bolivia-Peru

Abstract

This paper argues about the vicissitudes of people today known as Manchineri and Jaminawa, inhabitants of border regions of the department of Pando at Bolivia, Madre de Dios in Peru and Acre state in Brazil. It seeks to trace their connections and identityhistorical pertinence as people of linguistic and cultural affiliation to Arawak and Pano, also points the process of expanding its involvement by the national societies of Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, driven by the exploitation of rubber in the region, and finally show how his actual definition of political identity and their conditions of life were shaped by these processes. But even shaped by yhis involvement and by the norms of national states that divided its territory into national borders, imposing “legitimate” landmarks for the life of its inhabitants, we point out how they intend to equip these legal and sociocultural parameters which seek to submit them.