Predators and preys: the non-coercive aspects of the Yaminawa hunting

• Grant number: 12/02986-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: September 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Renato Sztutman
• Grantee: Rafael Rocha Pansica
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to investigate the ethnographical complex concerning the hunting process among the Yaminawa (Brazil / AC). From the point of view of the Yaminawa cosmology, the encounter between hunter and hunted is constituted as a social relationship: the hunted animal is endowed with agency, intentionality and consciousness - just like the hunter. Taking into account these considerations, the question which guides the present project is how the Yaminawa hunters constitute this social relationship with the hunting. More specifically - based on the work by Pierre Clastres on the non-coercive social relations that marks the "societies against the state" - we propose the following question: as well as the chief, would the hunter Yaminawa be deprived of coercive power? Or would have a coercive power implied in the hunting? (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

PANSICA, Rafael Rocha. Hunter\'s Duel: predation and familiarization in the indigenous Amazon. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.