Networks of Indigenization of Science: indigenous scholars and the objectification of "culture"

• Grant number: 12/24078-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
• Grantee: Augusto Ventura dos Santos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The theme of this research is the appropriation practices of scientific and academics knowledge production tools by indigenous university students in Brazil. Based on a conceptual framework obtained from the intersection of three different fields of political and academic discussion (i.e, the network of discussions about indigenous higher education in Brazil, the field of indigenization of "culture" and the field of Anthropology of Science), we intend to examine the ways in which, in the experience of such students entering university, different ways of knowing and living are being connected and interrelated. To achieve this aim and to seize these multiple connections, we purpose to follow the life and the student trajectory of some indigenous scholars involved in various contexts of insertion of indigenous in Brazilian higher education.

Academic Publications

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

SANTOS, Augusto Ventura dos. Affirmative actions on higher education: ethnographic research on Indigenous experiences in universities of Mato Grosso do Sul (Terena and Kaiowá-Guarani). 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.