Majoi Favero Gongora

Majoí Fávero Gongora holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo. Since 2013, she has been conducting ethnographic studies with the Ye'kwana people who live in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (Roraima). She is a researcher associated with CEstA (Centro de Estudos Ameríndios) at USP and a collaborator of the Instituto Socioambiental. She is currently coordinating the Ye'kwana project within the Cultural Documentation Program (ProDocult) of the Funai/Unesco Indian Museum. Between 2019 and 2020, she carried out a research stay at Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (LAS), thanks to the Legs Lelong/CNRS grant.Her doctoral research addressed the centrality of the songs between the Ye'kwana, Karib speakers living in the border region between Brazil and Venezuela. To develop this study, she had the support of CNPq (April 2012 to February 2013) and FAPESP (March 2013 to March 2016). She holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a master's degree in Social Anthropology from this institution. Alongside her involvement with Amerindian ethnology, an area in which she specializes, she works in projects to document and safeguard Ye'kwana culture, in partnership with the Wanasseduume Ye'kwana Association, and participates in initiatives aimed at the production of books, digital and audiovisual documents that disseminate qualified information about indigenous peoples. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)