Dora Savoldi da Rocha Azevedo

I am a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, with research funded by FAPESP. I hold a Masters degree in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Semiotics and General Linguistics at the same institution (2024), and a Bachelor's degree in Portuguese/Linguistics (2020). Since 2017, I have been conducting research at the intersection of Linguistics and Anthropology, focusing on the linguistic and communicative practices of the Tukano people of the Upper Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil). My undergraduate research explored aspects of the cobra-canoe narrative, a cosmogonic myth shared by various Indigenous peoples of the Northwestern Amazon. My masters research demonstrated the limitations of Western analytical categories in the linguistic description and broader understanding of Tukano language practices, based on fieldwork conducted in São Gabriel da Cachoeira. In my doctoral research, I investigate the role of languageparticularly evidentiality in everyday interactionsin the making of the Tukano world and personhood. I am a member of LLICC Laboratory for Language, Interaction, Culture and Cognition (FFLCH/USP) and the Understanding Artificial Intelligence initiative (IEA/USP). My main research interests include anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication, Indigenous ontologies, and Indigenous languages of Brazil. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)