Islandia: the blossoming of the Peruvian island at the border

• Published in: Mundo Amazónico
• Main Authors: Alex Sandro Nascimento Souza, José Aldemir Oliveira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2017
• Subjects: fronteira; urbanismo; Amazônia; engenharia; várzea; General Works; A; Islandia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15446/ma.v8n2.64514; https://doaj.org/article/ded787521ecc4d2484fcf2a5c5293fad

This paper focuses upon a place called the Vertical Village, a building in the center of Rio de Janeiro inhabited exclusively by indigenous peoples from different ethnic groups belonging to different parts of the country. In this paper, we discuss questions related to the experience of being indigenous in a city, the construction of a residential space as a village, and the constitution of indigenous identity in the urban context. Following the paths of three inhabitants of the building, the questions considered emerge from their transiting between cities and villages, frontiers either real or imaginary, prejudices and expectations of indigenous identity.