Amerindian network: generation and transformation of relationships in the South American lowlands

• Grant number: 05/57134-2
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2007
• End date: August 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
• Grantee: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Principal investigators: Beatriz Perrone-Moisés
• Associated scholarship(s): 12/00793-8 - The shared universe: circulation and articulation of knowlegdes in communication practices of the paiter surui people, BP.DR; 11/17917-9 - Subjectivities present in daily experience: research on Mebengokre ontology, BP.PD; 11/02777-7 - Eating like gods: production of the body among Guarani, BP.MS; + associated scholarships 11/05202-5 - Hierarchy, espace and ritual in High Negro River, BP.MS; 11/09338-9 - The issue of a non-coercive power in Pierre Clastres, BP.IC; 10/09370-7 - Meat and sadness - on caxinauá cuisine and ways of knowing, BP.DR; 09/03689-4 - Amerindian political forms: jê ethnology, BP.MS; 09/08788-0 - Traditional knowledge and sustainability discourses in Amapá, BP.IC; 09/02209-9 - Indigenous cyberculture: building a specific place in the globalized world., BP.MS - associated scholarships

Abstract

This project focuses on the issue of relational webs in the Amerindian universe of lowland South America. Considering the heuristically fecundity of the concept of 'web', as an alternative to the classical notions of 'tribe', 'ethnic group' and 'society' , we intend to conduct ethnographic research based on shared principles, related to the generation and transformation of relational webs. As a result, we shall propose a new comparative synthesis on how subject webs, discourse webs and knowledge webs (following the lines of investigation indicated) are organized, in different regional complexes. Our work schedule includes various activities, with special attention given to the academic training of students in social anthropology and to the discussion and diffusion of the results of this research project, which will be developed at the Núcleo de História Indígena e do Indigenismo/Universidade de São Paulo, by a group of 28 researchers. (AU)