Os Katukina e o Kampô : aspectos etnográficos da construção de um projeto de acesso a conhecimentos tradicionais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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The Katukina, a Panoan-speaking indigenous people from the upper Juruá river basin in the state of Acre, are presently involved in the Kampô Project. As coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, the project seeks to access traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources. Such knowledge is the indigenous use of the secretion obtained from Phyllomedusa bicolor, an amphibian called kampô by the Katukina. This dissertation aims at analysing some aspects of the disputed field of interethnic relations in the making of the project, such as: the international political context that enables indigenous peoples to gain control over access of their knowledge; the historical and sociological aspects of the Katukina and the frictions with neighbouring Panoan groups aroused by the sharing of kampô practises; the process through which kampô becomes used by non-indigenous people, making it possible for the project to emerge; and, last but not least, the political and cultural strategies used by the Katukina to renew the kampô properties under the political idiom of traditional knowledge. Thus, the Kampô Project, as seen from the natives point of view, is an event that assures the indigenous capacity of making advantageous political use of their culture, regarding their own cosmological references and present interests, which eventually results in the socialization of the alterity an essential element in the making of Panoan societies here represented by the whitemen

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katukina projeto antropologia kampô conhecimentos tradicionais

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