Indigenous women anthropologists: academics paths and narrative matrix

• Grant number: 25/25358-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2025
• End date: November 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Fabiana Maizza
• Grantee: Ruthe Gomes Meves
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 25/01822-1 - Politics of Care: ecological doing of indigenous women and ethnographic writing, AP.R

Abstract

In recent decades, we have seen Indigenous peoples irreversibly enter the academic discussion, pursuing anthropology studies and publishing narratives that urgently require a rethinking of central categories within the discipline, such as "nature," "ecology," and "woman," for example. This project will focus on theses and dissertations in anthropology written by Indigenous women researchers, seeking to understand the paths they are proposing to create narrative frameworks that are closer to their self-descriptions.