Joana Cabral de Oliveira in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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This project aims to empirically investigate the dynamics of constitution of a Traditional Agricultural System (TAS) of indigenous peoples of the middle Jequitinhonha River (MG), as well as the impact and risk factors that threaten and transform it. Operating with theoretical discussions of multispecies ethnography and decolonial criticism, the aim is to contribute to the dissemination an…
This project intends to investigate the relations between Yudja indigenous people and the forests at Xingu Indigenous Territory (TIX), Mato Grosso. The life cycle of an important set of trees classified by the Yudja as kadïka will track a multispecies ethnography taking into account the cosmopolitical aspects of these relationships. I look for contribute to the interdisciplinary dialogue …
The differences between scientific and non-scientific knowledge, as well as their possible dialogues, is an open subject but fruitful in anthropology, especially in light of recent alliances in the conservation of biodiversity. In this context, for two decades a group of primatologists from the University of São Paulo study robust capuchins monkeys that inhabit Fazenda Boa Vista, Gilbués,…
This research project outlines an ethnographic work to be conducted among the A'uw½-Xavante, an indigenous people located in the cerrado of Mato Grosso. Its primary aim is to describe the relationships the A'uw½ establish with the buriti palm tree, a plant of enormous importance to them. Based on them, it will seek to elucidate the networks of relationships that connect the buriti with t…
The region of Vale do Jequitinhonha, in the north of the state of Minas Gerais, has been home to a growing eucalyptus monoculture system in recent decades. This system expands over the land of the region at the service of specific industrial branches and, through the techniques employed in the industrial monoculture system and the introduction of eucalyptus trees, formerly exotic to the l…
The definition of research objects, understanding it in its process throughout a study, is a privileged field to push the theoretical limits of dichotomies between nature and culture, reality and representation, or even female and male. In this context, instigated by reflections from Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, primatology emerges as a particularly interesting scientific knowledge in …
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This internship project aims to contribute with methodological reflections for my Doctoral research, whose main objective is to produce an ethnographic description of the complex relationships between the A'uwe people (also known as Xavante) of the central Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna, and the buriti palm (Mauritia flexuosa), an extremely important plant for this people and deeply linke…
The main objective of this project is to instigate a reflection about plant subject in Amerindian ontologies, having as it epicenter an ethnographic research among the Wajãpi of Amapari (tupi-guarani group). This background would the guide a comparison with other ethnographic cases of Lowland South America. The proposal comprises also a dialogue with the actual botanical knowledge in orde…
| 1 / 1 | Ongoing research grants |
| 2 / 2 | Ongoing scholarships in Brazil |
| 9 / 7 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 1 / 1 | Ongoing scholarships abroad |
| 1 / 1 | Completed scholarships abroad |
| 14 / 12 | All research grants and scholarships |
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