Anthropological experiments between scientific and Amerindian knowledge

• Grant number: 14/13249-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: January 05, 2015
• End date: August 04, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta
• Grantee: Joana Cabral de Oliveira
• Supervisor: Laura M. Rival
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Oxford, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/50754-1 - Anthropological experiments between scientific and Amerindian knowledge, BP.PD

Abstract

The main objective of this project is to instigate a reflection about plant subject in Amerindian ontologies, having as it epicenter an ethnographic research among the Wajãpi of Amapari (tupi-guarani group). This background would the guide a comparison with other ethnographic cases of Lowland South America. The proposal comprises also a dialogue with the actual botanical knowledge in order to establish nuances between this and the Wajãpi knowledge. A secondary focus of this proposal will be on the training of Wajãpi health agents and the dialogue between these indigenous agents and the biologists and veterinarians that are developing a research on leishmaniose in Wajãpi area. Those contexts would be an extraordinary opportunity to establish a relational comparison between both procedures of knowledge and its acquisition. This will help us to understand how knowledge is created and utilized by both epistemologies. It will also give a background and a feedback to an anthropological experiment allowing a dialogic reflection between the Wajãpi and the modern botanical knowledge. (AU)

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)

JOANA CABRAL DE OLIVEIRA. Temporalidades Vegetais: Ciclo de vida, maturação e morte em uma etnografia ameríndia. Vibrant, v. 17, 2020-11-27. (14/13249-0)