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Persistence of Good Living
Cultural understandings of well-being often differ from scientific measures such as health, happiness, and affluence. For the Indigenous A'uwẽ (Xavante) people in the tropical savannas of Brazil, special forms of intimate and antagonistic social relations, camaraderie, suffering, and engagement with the environment are fundamental aspects of community wellness Anthropologist James R. Welch transparently presents ethnographic insights from his long-term fieldwork in two A'uwẽ communities. He addresses how distinctive constructions of age organization contribute to social well-being in an era of major ecological, economic, and sociocultural change. Welch shows how A'uwẽ perspectives on t...
Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication
In 2000, the world of anthropology was rocked by a high-profile debate over the fieldwork performed by two prominent anthropologists, Napoleon Chagnon and James V. Neel, among the Yanamamo tribe of South America. The controversy was fueled by the publication of Patrick Tierney's incendiary Darkness in El Dorado which accused Chagnon of not only misinterpreting but actually inciting some of the violence he perceived among these "fierce people". Tierney also pointed the finger at Neel as the unwitting agent of a deadly measles outbreak. Attracting a firestorm of attention, Tierney's book went straight to the heart of anthropology's most pressing questions: What are the right ways to study a tr...
Vulnerabilidade Social, Aids E Políticas Públicas
Este livro reproduz, com pequenas adaptações, o meu Relatório Final de Pós-doutorado aprovado em julho de 2002 pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), sob a supervisão da Drª. Renate Brigitte Viertler. Situado no Campo das Ciências Sociais e Saúde (Saúde Indígena), este estudo resultou da identificação da necessidade de se ir além de afirmações genéricas de que os indígenas, pela sua história e posição na estrutura social, são altamente vulneráveis à contaminação pelo HIV, pois isto não basta. Fazendo jus às experiências antropológicas sobre a diversidade sociocultural, há que se dizer como e porque são altamente vulneráveis. Divide-se em duas partes: (1) fatores objetivos responsáveis pela vulnerabilidade social (colonialismo, contato e saúde) ; (2) fatores socioculturais (noção de pessoa, saúde e cosmologia; organização social). Sua base empírica é a sociedade indígena Bakairi (língua Karib). Volta-se aos trabalhadores da saúde, na esperança de que, de posse destas informações, contribuam para a definição de políticas de saúde, culturalmente coerentes.
A Grammar of Kwaza
This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondônia, Brazil. The Kwaza language, also known in the literature as Koaiá, is spoken by around 25 people today. Until recently, our knowledge of Kwaza was based on only three short word lists, from 1938, 1943 and 1984. Like the language, the culture and the history of its speakers are undocumented. The Kwaza people as an ethnic group have been decimated by increasing ecological, physical, social and cultural pressure from Western civilisation since contact in the past century. This is the situation for many indigenous peoples of Rondônia and of the Amazon regi...
Human-Environment Interactions
Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land change sciences. The four sections of the volume reflect complementary approaches to HEI: health and adaptation approaches, land change and landscape management approaches, institutional and political-ecology approaches, and historical and archaeological approaches.
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The Nature of Difference
Unprecedented advances in genetics and biotechnology have brought profound new insights into human biological variation. These present challenges and opportunities for understanding the origins of human nature, the nature of difference, and the social practices these sustain. This provides an opportunity for cooperation between the biological and s
