Ontogenesis and childbirth among Mehinako women

• Grant number: 18/12599-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: September 05, 2018
• End date: February 04, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior
• Grantee: Aline de Paula Regitano
• Supervisor: Christina Toren
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of St Andrews, Scotland
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/12972-8 - Conceiving, gestating, giving birth and nurturing: body and sociality among Alto-Xingu women, BP.MS

Abstract

This project aims to systematize and analyze fieldwork data gathered during a master research about the ideas and practices on conception, gestation, childbirth and after-birth among Mehinako women, to benefit for an exchange in an excellent center of research which is St. Andrews University, under the supervision of Professor Christina Toren. It intends to explore interviews, observations and informal conversations collected, in dialogue with Christina Toren work about ontogenesis seeking to understand how Mehinako women experience these processes and how the child is made. Considering the cognitive development of the child as a microhistorical process, it aspires to analyses the scenario of interference zones of practices in which indigenous women are inscribed while making their babies and its implications. And finally, it expects to explore children's drawings gathered in field and the conversations with the children about their drawings, considering Toren's methodological approach, to explore children perspectives about reproductive processes and the mother and child bond.