Resumen de O "dilúvio" na realidade atual dos Tuxá: ação prática em uma antropologia de urgência
The Tuxá facing serious problems related to the scantiness of their agricultural territory, were inserted in an interethnic system and, after age-old conflicts, they had established a social balance, an adaptacion, even though it was under several aspects, a precarious one - in its relations with the National Brazilian society, in its section set up in the town of Rodelas. In order to achieve this sort of balance, the Catholic missionaries contributed in the historical past, and the SPI-FUNAI, in the present. During the research among the Indian local group, there was a situation of latent tension in Rodelas city. This situation did emerge in the surface of the society through violence acts, but it was nurtured by preventions and prejudices in consequence of the agricultural production system, and by the future perspective of flood of the Indian territory as well as by the neglect of FUNAi, in view of such a serious threat for the Indian people.
The Tuxá find in their myths and rituals the principal of their socio-cultural identity, as a social group in face of the National Brazilian society. The supernatural dimension as the rituals that are integrated on it are dynamic and sociologically operative in the Tuxá society. Their symbolic universe, the magical sphere of their thought and their vision of the world are very specific to them.
