Gardens of children and affines: agriculture and kinship in amerindian athnology

Author(s)

Yuri Werner Biguetti Winkler

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2023-12-20

Examining board members

Marina Vanzolini Figueiredo; Fabiana Maizza Feron; Joana Cabral de Oliveira; Karen Gomes Shiratori

• Advisor: Marina Vanzolini Figueiredo

Abstract

This dissertation, of a bibliographic and comparative nature, deals with Amerindian ways of relating to and through plants cultivated in fields. Based on the analysis of a set of monographs dedicated to the theme of relationships between humans, plants and various alterities, and in dialogue with contemporary discussions about kinship, affinity, predation, familiarisation and point of view in Americanist ethnology, we seek to construct a reading about the making and unmaking of kinship relationships between human beings and cultivars, as well as the centralities of difference and affinity in the composition and diversification of farms. The dissertation is organized into three chapters which, as will be seen, constitute condensations of problems that appear (implicitly or explicitly) throughout the text (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 20/04333-8 - Between houses and lakes: ethnography of the production of water-lily salt among the aweti people (Tupi) of the Upper Xingu river (MT, Brazil)
• Grantee: Yuri Werner Biguetti Winkler
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master