To become and not to become human through ethnographic participation in Central Brazil

This text presentation is based on an ethnographic research amongst the A'uwẽ-Xavante people: “Datsi'a'uwẽdzé – to become and not to become human in Central Brazil” (doctoral thesis defended on 2012– Social Anthropology, University of São Paulo). Debating with ethnographic and anthrop...

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Main Author: Guilherme Lavinas Jardim Falleiros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2013-06-01
Series:Universitas Humanística
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Online Access:http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/2424
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description This text presentation is based on an ethnographic research amongst the A'uwẽ-Xavante people: “Datsi'a'uwẽdzé – to become and not to become human in Central Brazil” (doctoral thesis defended on 2012– Social Anthropology, University of São Paulo). Debating with ethnographic and anthropological production, I address the a'uwẽ-xavante conceptions of humanity and personhood seeking to understand the process of its ongoing constitution and its effects on the very person of the ethnographer and his work.
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Personhood
Gift
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title To become and not to become human through ethnographic participation in Central Brazil
title_full To become and not to become human through ethnographic participation in Central Brazil
title_fullStr To become and not to become human through ethnographic participation in Central Brazil
title_full_unstemmed To become and not to become human through ethnographic participation in Central Brazil
title_short To become and not to become human through ethnographic participation in Central Brazil
title_sort to become and not to become human through ethnographic participation in central brazil
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A’uwē-xavante
Personhood
Gift
Capture
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