The Wayana on the hypermidia format

• Grant number: 13/09736-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: November 25, 2013
• End date: March 11, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Paula Morgado Dias Lopes
• Grantee: Paula Morgado Dias Lopes
• Host Investigator: Wanono Gauthier Nadine
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF), France

Abstract

This research aims to upgrade ethnographic material on the Wayana, an indigenous people located in northern of Pará and southern of French Guiana, places where I collected data for my Masters and Ph.D. respectively. It also aims to strengthen the cooperation between researchers from different institutions in order to consolidate the field of anthropological theory and new media. The idea is to explore the possibilities of hypermedia, which emerges as a privileged language for the Internet allowing both that the knowledge is disseminate interactively as in broader circuits.In this sense, the internship requires a three-month stay at the Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAF) and the Centre Recherche et Enseignement en Ethnologie Amérindienne (EREA / LESC), both linked to the CNRS in Paris. In CEMAF I intend to strengthen academic exchange with Nadine Wanono-Gauthier, who has been acting in an innovative way in the field of anthropology and new media. This researcher has developed key partnerships between universities and cultural institutions, in particular with Centre Digitally (CUBE), known as to make an interesting dialogue between academic studies and arts. In the second center (EREA / LESC), I intend to gather the latest ethnographic data on the Wayana, and make academic exchanges with the ethno linguist Eliane Camargo who works with the Wayana since 1993 on both sides of the border (Brazil and French Guiana).It is worth mentioning that the research intended by this internship is linked to the academic discussions of the FAPESP Thematic Project called "Movie Experience in Anthropology", coordinated by Prof. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, 2010-2014, nº 2009/52880. The Thematic Project reflects on the knowledge production as an expression of the dialog between anthropological theory and other fields such as art, film, photography and music. Hypermidia permits an interesting dialog between those fields, through which results in isolated products that can be read either singly or compose an environment in which different languages are activated. This will be the major challenge in my proposal of a new reading of the Wayana People studied by me. (AU)