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- Title
Vir a ser e não ser gente através da participação etnográica no Brasil Central.
- Authors
Jardim Falleiros, Guilherme Lavinas
- Abstract
In the present article I address the a'uwē-xavante conceptions of humanity and personhood seeking to understand the process of its ongoing constitution and its effects on the very person of the ethnographer and his work while debating with ethnographic and anthropological production. Captured by his subjects, the ethnographer acquires a potency of becoming human through the predation, familiarization and magnification processes. It is possible for the ethnographer to rethink and reenact the very ethnographic praxis, policy and politics when participating in the constitution of the collective self, being taken and transformed by this constitution, doing ritual work and acquiring cosmpolitical offices.. The consequences of such approach are manifested in the ethnographic writing, taking it closest to the multiplicity of experience, affected by the "native" embodied philosophy, in a dialog among anthropology and Amerindian action and thought. In a so called era of ethnographic crisis, becoming and not becoming "native" turns to be the best way to make anthropology --maybe not an unusual approach after all.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ETHNOLOGY; HUMANITY; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis; SOCIAL conditions in Brazil
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2013, Vol 75, Issue 75, p251
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article