Inquietas companhias : sobre os animais de criação entre os Karitiana

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2010

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This work deals with a matter which was not properly investigated by ethnologists working on indigenous populations in the South American lowlands: the relationships between these societies and animal species introduced by Europeans after contact and conquest, specially dogs, cats, oxen, pigs, horses and chicken. Based on empirical data collected among the Karitiana - a Tupi-Arikém-speaking people inhabiting northern Rondônia state, southwestern Brazilian Amazon - this research aims to comprehend how this Indians created symbolical and practical ways to adopt these exotic beings, which were probably introduced by the whitemen during the XIXth century. Exploring histories on how this foreign beings appeared and were adopted by the Karitiana - histories that, by themselves, already points to differences between exotic beings and native ones - this work discusses a number of questions on European animals positioning in the indigenous universe; among them, questions about gender relationships, kinship and family life, naming practices, economic activities, religious movements, and historical and zoological knowledge. It also argues that, in spite of being incorporated into indigenous everyday life, a little bit of that original weirdness and strangeness still persists. In turn, these aspects can explain the ambiguities we observe. For the last, these ambiguities are the result of Karitiana s and Western s distinct notions on domesticity and/or wildness, and between their distinct ways to build human and non-human relationships

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indios da america do sul - brasil indios karitiana domestic animals animais domesticos antropologia social indios da america do sul - rondonia indians of south america etnologia indias of south america social anthropology ethnology karitiana indians

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