Poder, hierarquia e reciprocidade : os caminhos da politica e da saude no Alto Rio Negro

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2002

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This thesis is situated in the field of political anthropology, with strong similarities to what Ortner (1994) has called New Theories of Practice, exploring the relationships between power, knowledge and hegemony in a given society, the Baniwa of the Upper Rio Negro, Northwest Amazon, Brazil. The thesis takes as its starting point and main axis, the study of the representations of disease, curing practices, ethnopolitical movements and their interaction with public health politics, discussing the exercise of political power in the context of interethnic relationships. It analyzes how social practices have been historically constituted and how the indigenous conceptions of power tie in with the expression of authority on the local leveI. It seeks to understand how ethnopolitical agents - understood as individual manifestations of collective experiences - act in the definition, reproquction and transformation of the relationships of force and asymmetry that exist in their lives. It concludes that the reproduction of Baniwa social structure is generating its own transformation through an historical reordering that establishes a "Baniwa way of interacting with the non indigenous world, govemed by the logic of mythical and cosmological productions of the group

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saude poder (ciencias sociais) antropologia politica indios da america do sul - manaus (am)

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