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Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Development: The Life of an Indigenous Organization in the Rio Negro of Brazil
Get PDFFollowing a successful campaign to end the unlawful practices of trafficking that brought them to Manaus,
indigenous Tukanoan women from the Upper Rio Negro established a local indigenous organization with
which to plan and manage their own ethno-development, including cultural heritage activities, institution
building, revenue development, health and legal services, community, and other initiatives. The case provides
an opportunity to explore indigenous ethno-development, a concept at the heart of the theory and practice of Shelton (Sandy) Davis.
No seguimento de uma campanha bem sucessida em Manaus para terminar com práticas de tráfego ilegais,mulheres indígenas da tribo Tukano do Alto Rio Negro fundaram uma organização indígena local com o fim de planejar e gerir o seu próprio desenvolvimento etnográfico, incluindo atividades culturais e patrimoniais,
reforço institucional, desenvolvimento de rendimentos, serviços de saúde e legais, iniciativas comunitárias e
outras. Este caso oferece uma oportunidade para estudar o desenvolvimento etnográfico, um conceito central
na teoria e práctica de Shelton (Sandy) Davis
Subspecies variation in manioc among the Tukano
No full textAbstract. Tukanoan women farmers, with the highest number of subspecies of manioc (Manihot esculenta) reported, practice a strategem of intraspecific diversification. Women's multiple allegiances and ongoing contact with diverse localities serve as the dispersal routes through which manioc subspecies and knowledge about them pass throughout the river basin. Knowledge sharing and cultivar circulation can be traced to women's marital and kin networks. These findings demonstrate a wide distribution of manioc cultivars, propitiated by rules of examogamy, patrilineal descent, and patrilocal postmarital residence
In The Concise Evolutionary Essays, Robert B. Graber, ed.
No full texthttps://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GraberCarneir
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Language in an ontological register: Embodied speech in the Northwest Amazon of Colombia and Brazil
No full textSpeakers of Eastern Tukanoan languages in Brazil and Colombia construe linguistic differences
as indices of group identity, intrinsic to a complex ontology in which language is a
consubstantial, metaphysical product, a ’substance’ in the development of the person.
Through speech, speakers of the same language signal a corporality based in theories of
shared ancestry and mutual belonging while speakers of different languages signal difference.
For Tukanoans, then, one creates one’s self in the act of speaking. These ontological
beliefs underlie speech practices, influencing language maintenance and
contributing to one of the most extreme examples of multilingualism reported in the
literature
Estrutura social do Uaupés
No full textO objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar um modelo coe' rente da estrutura social dos povos Tukano orientais que vivem na bacia do Rio Uaupés na Amazônia brasileira e colombiana. Como ocorre com outros sistemas sociais da América do Sul não andina, no Uaupés não existem genealogias profundas (Murphy 1979). Entretanto, o sistema do Uaupés difere de muitos sistemas sul-americanos por ser altamente estruturado, sendo a unilinearidade um dos vários princípios estruturais integradores. Embora os sistemas sociais dessa região tenham sido chamados de segmentários (vide, por exemplo, Jackson 1974), o presente trabalho pretende mostrar que esse termo não consegue caracterizar o sistema de maneira acurada, e que, além do mais, ignora outros princípios organizatórios essenciais que fazem dele um sistema sui generis
Tukanoan Women and the Management of Intraspecific Diversity in Manihot Esculenta in the Northwest Amazon of Brazil
No full textThis is an 2017 English-language revision of the paper:
Chernela 1986. Os Cultivares de Mandioca (Tukano). In SUMA: Etnológica Brasileira, Vol. I, Etnobiologia, ed. Berta Ribeiro. Rio de Janeiro. Pp 151-158.
It was prepared for the exhibit, “Atura, Beiju, and Manioc,” MUSA, Museu da Amazônia (the Museum of Amazônia), Manaus, Brazil.Tukanoan women farmers, with the highest number of subspecies of manioc (Manihot esculenta) reported, practice a strategem of intraspecific diversification. Women's multiple allegiances and ongoing contact with diverse localities serve as the dispersal routes through which manioc subspecies and knowledge about them pass throughout the river basin. Knowledge sharing and cultivar circulation can be traced to women's marital and kin networks. These findings demonstrate a wide distribution of manioc cultivars, propitiated by rules of examogamy, patrilineal descent, and patrilocal postmarital residence
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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