This research deals with the complexities involving the cases of death by bàtòtàka, a spell of "tying the throat" among the Karajá. The objective is, based on the ethnographic analysis of suicide cases in several indigenous ...

The presence of reports in the big mass media spreading the existence of isolated indigenous people in the Amazon forest has grown exponentially over the last years. Such movement is associated mainly due to the onslaughts ...

This thesis corresponds to an ethnography about the yuhupdeh of the lower Tiquié river, a people belonging to the Nadehup (Maku linguistic family, located in the Amazon Northwest. It is sought to retake here the theme of ...

This thesis intends to contribute to the ethnography of the peoples of the eastern tukanoan linguistic family on the Uaupés river (specifically, Tukano and Desana), focusing in particular on the low course of this river, ...

The dissertation deals with how the Asurini from the Xingu conceive and produce their children and how their children portray themselves and the reality they see. The images of the fieldwork brought to the theoretical ...

As an outcome of the ethnography carried through among the Tenharim - a kagwahiva group from the Madeira river basin in Southern Amazon Rainforest - this dissertation's major point is the Mboatawa, a feast that takes place ...

This dissertation is the result of field research whose objective was the study of the Yanomami of Maturacá (Rio Negro region, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas) participation in the elaboration and implementation of the ...

The aim of this thesis is to outline ways of conceiving growth, marriage and death among the Panará, people speaking the Gê language that inhabits the Panará Indigenous Land, covering the north of Mato Grosso and southern ...

The aim of this paper is to present the way in which the Taurepáng, Carib people who lives in the north of the state of Roraima in Brazil, has been interpreting the consequences of the Venezuelan crisis. Their communities ...

In the past decades, public policies in the most diverse areas have been formulated for indigenous peoples. These policies, often engendered by imperatives of national development, are not always congruent with the ...