Following enchanted trails: humans, encantados and ways oh dwelling the Almofala of Tremembé

In this thesis I will discuss some of the relationships established between the Tremembe of Almofala and the encantados (enchanted). The former are an indigenous group that lives on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, on the west coast of Ceará State, northeast Brazil, and encantados are entities present in the cosmologies of various groups - indigenous and non-indigenous - in South America. Encantados are presented in very different ways. Some describe them as people - before or after death - passed to a form of existence not affected by the passage of time and they are invisible to most people; others present them as characters of umbanda, fairies, princes and princesses ... and there are also those who put them as entities that inhabit and protect the forests, as Caipora, Mãe dÁgua or Guajara. They can manifest themselves in the form they want, sometimes human, sometimes animal or even anthropomorphic beings. This diversity of versions of Encantados put me in front of several worlds constituted by a multiplicity of agencies and different subjectivities. Something in common among such diversity is the fact that all relate to areas such as wetlands, lakes, seas, forests and dunes, as houses of encantados. Therefore, when addressing the advancement of environmental degradation in the indigenous area, the Tremembé demonstrate a serious concern for the destiny of encantados who are, just like humans, seeing their houses succumbing to the spread of agribusiness. I tried to launch reflections on how are these encantes, how they manifest, for what purpose they act in this world, what their assignments. I emphasize that I treated as being in a symmetrical position in relation to humans, since, like us, they also act and transform the worlds in which they live. In this sense, the methodological proposal Network Actor Theory - which supports the idea that not-humans should be treated as actors and not mere symbolic projections of humanity - enabled me to follow the networks of relationships formed from the category \"encantado\" and thus put on the same plane of analysis different elements, such as enchanted humans rituals, landscapes and developments related to different fields such as tourism, agribusiness and overfishing. (AU)