Teaches Social Anthropology in the Universidade de São Paulo. Research areas include amerindian politics, kinship, sorcery and anthropological theory. Field experience in the Upper Xingu (MT, Brazil), working with the Aweti (tupi) since 2004. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The book presents an ethnography of sorcery and its relation to kinship within the multilingual system of the Upper Xingu (MT), as seen from one of its constituent groups - the Aweti's (tupi) - point of view. Showing that sorcery occurs generally among people that are closely related, and in contrast to the native and anthropological image of peaceful relations between the xinguano people…
This proposal aims to document how Mehinako people understand and experience childbirth and other reproductive processes, following the trajectory of pregnant and postpartum women at the intersection between villages and cities. It is intended to analyse local concepts such as the manapiri (body), investigating how it is constituted and manifested, and examining Mehinako's ideas about hu…
This is an ethnographic research proposal, in which the researcher proposes to conduct a long-term fieldwork research among the Kawaiwete, an indigenous Tupi-Guarani speaking people which nowadays lives, in its majority, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory. The main goal is to describe and elucidate the relations between the Kawaiwete and nonindigenous actors. Noting, however, the constant …
This research project has as its main goal to discuss the notions of kinship and ownership among the Aweti people, tupi-speakers who inhabit the Upper Xingu River region. Through an ethnographic approach of the production of native water-lily salt, we aim to: 1. Investigate the relations between humans and plants with an interest in rethink dichotomies such as wild/domesticated and not pl…
The aim of this research project is to carry out a bibliographical review about the ownership relations among the Upper Xingu river peoples (MT). The indigenous categories translated as owners or masters are recurrent on the ethnographical material and emerge as a generalized model, being materialized in the most diverse forms of relation. However, most of what have been discuted about th…
Noticing a lack of systematic studies on the concept of Amerindian rituals, as it is used in the ethnographies of the South-American lowland Indian peoples, the present research project seeks to review the ways rituals have been described in these studies since the 1980s. The aim of this project is compering the descriptive discourses about ritual without reducing them to the theoretical …
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This project aims to systematize and analyse fieldwork data gathered during a PhD research about childbirth and gender relations among Mehinako women. It intends to explore Mehinako birth stories, interviews, observations and informal conversations, in dialogue with Christine McCourt work about concepts of time and the historical process of medicalization of the maternal care. It is expec…
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