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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
bachelor's at Ciências Sociais from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1986), master's at Antropology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1993) and doctorate at Sociology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2004). Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Aboriginal Ethnology, acting on the following subjects: mitologia, patrimônio, etnologia and história indígena. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The project aims at describing and analyzing the contexts in which names and nicknames are assigned and activated among the indigenous peoples inhabiting the upper Rio Negro region, by means of discussing the radical division between the domestic sphere and the political-ritual one. The hypothesis to be set is that the nomination process is the basis for grouping production processes and …
This project aims an ethnographic research focusing the social life of indigenous peoples who inhabit the Uaupés River basin, northwestern Amazon, mostly belonging to the Eastern Tukano linguistic family. The main issue in this project is the dynamics of actualization and creation of units and subunits that make up the extensive regional social system, ie the production of internal differ…
This research proposes an ethnography with the Miriti-Tapuia people of the Tiquié River (Northwest Amazon), demographically the smallest of the Tukanoan-speaking groups of the Uaupés River (less than 100 people). The intention is to explore their position in the system of reciprocal considerations expressed among the more than 20 peoples of the Tukanoan language family of the Uaupés River…
The purpose of this research is to carry out an ethnography at Maturacá (São Gabriel da Cachoeira, State of Amazonas, Brazil) - a regional group composed of eight Yanomami communities -, continuing to investigate some themes that raised during my master's research. Maturacá shows some unique aspects if compared to other Yanomami realities, such as extended co-residence, high population, a…
The purpose of this research is to investigate some aspects of the practice of the Seventh-day Adventist religion by the Taurepáng. They are a Carib-speaking indigenous people who lives in the North of the state of Roraima, in communities that are distributed on both sides of the border with Venezuela. In the last few years, their daily lives have been irremediably affected by the worseni…
This project focuses on the participation of the Taurepáng in the tourist activity that has been consolidating in Indigenous Land in the north of the state of Roraima. The research will be conducted in the community of Bananal, located in a forest region, surrounded by many waterfalls and at the foot of the mountain range of Pacaraima, which marks the border between Brazil and Venezuela. …
This project aims to articulate the discussion between gender and knowledge among the Tukano of the upper rio Negro, through the analysis of the place of feminine knowledge in the Tukano regime of knowledge. It deals with, in this patrilinear society in which the knowledge considered of the highest value (nirõ kahse) is predominantly masculine and passed through patrilineal clan lines, to…
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The objective of this project is to develop the main themes of my doctoral research, which deals with the social and cosmopolitical transformations being experienced by the Yanonami of Maturacá (São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas). In this context, I investigate the ongoing relations between the Yanonami and Christianity, that is, the process of shamanic translation of Christian practices…
This project aims to explore the specificities of feminine creative modes among Eastern Tukano peoples, focusing on the analysis of concepts and practices related to the creation of people, plants and artefacts by Tukanoan women, dwellers of the Tiquié river,tributary of the Uaupés, upper Rio Negro, Amazonas. I seek to answer questions such as: what are the differences between female and …
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