The gift and the circle: an essay about auwe-xavante reciprocity / A dádiva e o círculo:- um ensaio sobre reciprocidade auwe-xavante

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This research presents itself as an essay about auw?-xavante reciprocity and the gift, analyzing relations which also encompass elements such as predation and tradition. The data and issues treated here were selected through the reading of ethnographic works about the A?uw?-Xavante people, also oriented by analysis of Amazonian Amerindian and Central Brazilian ethnology. Through a recuperation of the notion of gift with its paradoxes and transformations, applied to a variety of aspects like kinship, the house, the material and immaterial ? equally symbolical ? and so on, a reconstruction of the theoretical interest in Mauss was searched too, on behalf of anthropology in general or of Amerindian ethnology in particular. With such elements, the Amerindian reciprocity and gift circles can be thought over by its application to the studied case.

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dádiva name tradição a uwe-xavante etnologia ameríndia jê tradition amerindian ethnology nome house a uwe-xavante casa jê gift

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