Amerindian hierarchies

• Grant number: 13/21602-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: January 01, 2014
• End date: February 15, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Beatriz Perrone-Moisés
• Grantee: Beatriz Perrone-Moisés
• Host Investigator: Serge Gruzinski
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France

Abstract

This research aims at gathering ethnographic data pertaining to two sociopolitical contexts in the Americas, the northamerican Northwest and the so-called "higher civilizations", in order to reassess what has been qualified as hierarchy in the description of amerindian political systems. It constitutes the first step of a more comprehensive investigation, comparative in character,in which the amerindian systems described as hierarchical shall be analised as one more case (instead of a particular case)belonging to a wider set, along with all other modes of social assimetry found among Amerindian peoples. (AU)