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| Author(s): |
Roberto Sanches Rezende
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2016-03-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida;
Geraldo Luciano Andrello;
Oscar Calavia Saez;
Ana Cláudia Duarte Rocha Marques;
Nashieli Rangel Loera
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| Advisor: | Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida |
| Abstract | |
The present thesis is an ethnography of economic practices of a peasant group of the Tejo River Basin, Brazilian Amazon. It focus on exchange relations, in particular those called "ajuda" (help). Peasants define a range of relations as "ajuda" and the term points to relations based on reciprocity. I suggest that "ajuda" relations are not altruistic or unselfish and also that they are not limited to local communities. One can also establish "ajuda" relations with traders and politicians. Thus, based on local practices and views, I propose a model of relations to explain exchange. The model intends to explain relations between different actors as based on the same values. These values are close related to expected behaviours between exchange partners. I also point to affective features of the model, making exchange between partners also acts of production of people. "Consideração" (consideration, or esteem) and kinship play a part on this affective and economic model. The thesis is based on fieldwork data and on literature review, mainly those works about the Upper Juruá region and those in dialogue with Economic Anthropology (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/10454-0 - Amazonian Economies: multiplicity of practices and discourses in the upper Juruá river |
| Grantee: | Roberto Sanches Rezende |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |