%0 Journal Article %T A cultura pol¨ªtica da visibilidade: os Pankararu na cidade de S£¿o Paulo %A Nakashima %A Edson Yukio %A Albuquerque %A Marcos Alexandre dos Santos %J Estudos Hist¨®ricos (Rio de Janeiro) %D 2011 %I Centro de Pesquisa e Documenta??o de Hist¨®ria Contempor?nea do Brasil da Funda??o Get¨²lio Vargas %R 10.1590/S0103-21862011000100010 %X over the last 60 years, the indigenous pankararu migrate from pernambuco to the city of s£¿o paulo and now number more than 2000 people in this town. due to their autonomous organization, they were the first native migrant group of the northeast to receive some assistance of organs such as funai and funasa, in s£¿o paulo. but, for that, the pankararu started to promote presentations of an ancient religious tradition hitherto restricted to their villages in pernambuco: the mask prai¨¢. this article presents the context of construction of the visibility of the pankararu in s£¿o paulo and the legitimacy of this ethnic characteristic through the presentations of the prai¨¢s like a paradigmatic element that characterizes the "way of being indigenous" pankararu. %K indigenous pankararu %K migration %K indigenous policies %K performance %K identity. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-21862011000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en