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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduate in Latin American Studies from University of Essex (1974); B.Phil in Latin American Studies from University of Oxford (1976) and Ph.D. in Antropology from the Museu Nacional (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), 1986. Specialist in Social Anthropology of Amerindians, focusing on social organization, kinship, gender, cosmology, ritual, mythology and language. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The project constitutes a new sequel to research begun in 1978, with various stages undertaken since then, concerning the Metyktire, a subdivision of the Mebengokre (Kayapó), situated to the west of the river Xingu. One facet of the project is to learn how to use the computer program PUCK (Program for the Use and Computation of Kinship data), developed by the Laboratory of Social Anthropo…
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This research project has a twofold objective: an ethnographic one and comparative one. In ethnographic terms, it is proposed to continue the research with Guajá-Awa, a small group of hunters, speakers of a Tupi-Guarani language, and inhabitants of the basins of Gurupi Turiaçu and Mearim rivers, in the west of the state Maranhão (Brazil). In a ethnographic way, the project aims to (1) stu…
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