Codes of mediation in encodings of anthropologists and missionaries of the Consolata: an analysis of the meanings of the Yanomami

• Grant number: 10/13949-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: June 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Melvina Afra Mendes de Araújo
• Grantee: João Roberto Bort Júnior
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/10758-0 - Alterity and mediation: processes of construction of the ‘other’ in catholic and protestant universes in Brazil and Africa, AP.JP

Abstract

The intention of this project is to analyze the conceptions of the Consolata missionaries and anthropologists about the Yanomami, expressed in his writings. As these agents encoders "other," try to observe in their texts the processes of development of codes of mediation, attending to the meanings assigned to it. For this you must also pay attention to the motivations, interests and social positions of these agents, which lead to these encodings in their texts. (AU)