Summary – Cultural Politics and Indigenous Peoples

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Cultural Politics and Indigenous Peoples – An Introduction                              9

Manuela Carneiro da Cunha

PART I – Culture, Patrimony, Knowledge and Shamanism

  1. Cultural Transformations in Alto Rio Negro 25

          Geraldo Andrello e Tatiana Amaral S. Ferreira

  1. Agricultural Patrimony and Modernity in Rio Negro (Amazonas) 59

          Laure Emperaire

  1. The Internationalization of Kampô (via Ayahuasca): Global Diffusion

and Local Effects                                                                               91

          Edilene Coffaci de Lima

.4. “Too Many Questions” – Multiplicities of Ways of Knowing in an

Experiment in the Training of Researchers of the Guarani Mbya             113       Joana Cabral de Oliveira e Lucas Keese dos Santos

  1. Ritual, “Culture” and Transformation: the Festival of the Alligator among

the Arara of Rondônia                                                                                     135

          Júlia Otero dos Santos

  1. Don’t Prod a Culture with a Short Stick: the Palikur and the Project

“Bridge between Peoples”                                                                                           165

          Artionka Capiberibe

  1. Indigenous Knowledge and Its Knowers: a Doubly Concrete Science 195 Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza
  2. Observations of the Process of Transition to Patrimony among the Kene Huni Kuĩ 219

          Joaquim Maná de Lima, José Benedito Ferreira Kaxinawa, Marcos de

           Almeida Matos e Paulo Roberto Nunes Ferreira

  1. The Discovery of Culture by the Maxakali, and Their Project of Pacifying the

Whites                                                                                                                       241

          Marina Guimarães Vieira

  1. Some Types of Using the Other’s Culture 257

          Nicole Soares-Pinto

  1. Shamanism and New Currents of Knowledge in the Indigenous

Amazon                                                                                                                                287

Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

 

PART II – School and Language

  1. Culture in the Indigenous Schools 313

          Clarice Cohn

  1. Experiences and Reflections of a Student-Leadership: Some Policies of Indigenous Education in Alto Rio Negro 339

          Maximiliano Menezes e Raphael Rodrigues

  1. The Demarcation of Indigenous Languages in Brazil 363

          José R. Bessa Freire

  1. Kagaiha akisü etĩbepügü – The Coming of the Language of the

Whites                                                                                                                                  391

          Mutuá Mehinaku

  1. From “People Without Writing” to “Illiterate Citizens”: the Theoretical Conceptions Underlying Educational Proposals for Indigenous Peoples in Brazil 435

          Maria Elisa Ladeira

  1. The Training of Indigenous Teachers in the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Dilemmas of the “Cultures” among the Xakriabá and the Pataxó 455

          Ana Maria R. Gomes e Shirley Aparecida de Miranda

  1. The Terena and Higher Education for the Indigenous in Mato Grosso

do Sul                                                                                                                                  485

          Augusto Ventura dos Santos e Luiz Henrique Eloy Amado Terena

  1. The School as a Problem: Some Standpoints 509

          Dominique Tilkin Gallois