Indigenous appropriations of industrialized goods

• Grant number: 12/23868-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
• Grantee: Camila Galan de Paula
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This projects aims to analyze "White men things" appropriations by Amerindian populations, seeking to understand how these objects are included in native models and which are the effects of such appropriations. The research strategies comprise (1) the preparation of a literature review on how anthropologists, in recent production on Lowland South America, have faced the theme of industrialized goods appropriation and (2) ethnographic research among the Wajãpi in Amapá (Northern Brazil). The premise is that objects are not resignified by different cultures; things and concepts are identical (Henare, Holbraad & Wastell, 2007), therefore, when an "artifact" is shifted from one ontology to another, it establishes other relations. This project, hence, does not assume a priori those things as "goods", "merchandises", "products", nor "objects"; it endeavors to access concepts throughout the research elaboration.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CAMILA GALAN DE PAULA. Assimetria e saliência: a relação entre iniciador/a e imitadores/as na circulação de bens industrializados entre os Wajãpi no Amapá. Rev. Antropol., v. 64, n. 3, 2021-12-06. (12/23868-3)

Academic Publications

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

PAULA, Camila Galan de. In a world of many bodies: a study of objects and garments among the Wajãpi (Amapá, Brazil). 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.