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| Author(s): |
Renato Sztutman
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2005-12-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Dominique Tilkin Gallois;
Maria Manuela Ligeti Carneiro da Cunha;
Tânia Stolze Lima;
Beatriz Perrone Moises;
John Manuel Monteiro
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| Advisor: | Dominique Tilkin Gallois |
| Abstract | |
This thesis focus on the relationship, among the ancient Tupi of the brazilian coast, between prophetic movements and the political domain. In so doing, it returns to some classic discussions that play an important part in anthropology\'s history, as those which were carried by Pierre and Hélène Clastres; the fi rst one hardly engaged on the foundation of a political anthropology. Comparing data of past societies with recent ethnographies of contemporary indigenous peoples, this thesis proposes a refl ection on Amerindian political agency, stressing the ways people and groups, leaders and sociopolitical units, can be made (and thus be extended), as well as regarding the mechanisms that offer resistance to the stabilization of these people and groups, which could result in a fixed asymmetry. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 01/09477-7 - Shamanic routes: science and policy in lowland South America |
| Grantee: | Renato Sztutman |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |