Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)

The Awá (also known as Guajá) are hunter-gatherers whose way of life prior to their first contact with Brazilian society has been altered after relocation to a reservation. Basically, their mobility is reduced and they have been forced to start cultivation. Although these changes are beginning to af...

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Autores principales: Hernando, Almudena, Politis, Gustavo Gabriel, González Ruibal, Alfredo, Beserra Cohelo, Elizabeth
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: University of Chicago Press 2011
Materias:
AWA-GUAJA
EGALITARIAN SOCIETIES
GENDER
PERSONHOOD
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/33519
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/33519
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Suquía - Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba (IDACOR, CONICET y UNC) de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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topic AWA-GUAJA
EGALITARIAN SOCIETIES
GENDER
PERSONHOOD
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
spellingShingle AWA-GUAJA
EGALITARIAN SOCIETIES
GENDER
PERSONHOOD
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Hernando, Almudena
Politis, Gustavo Gabriel
González Ruibal, Alfredo
Beserra Cohelo, Elizabeth
Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
topic_facet AWA-GUAJA
EGALITARIAN SOCIETIES
GENDER
PERSONHOOD
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
description The Awá (also known as Guajá) are hunter-gatherers whose way of life prior to their first contact with Brazilian society has been altered after relocation to a reservation. Basically, their mobility is reduced and they have been forced to start cultivation. Although these changes are beginning to affect women's social role, the traditional power relationships can still be inferred from the present conditions. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to argue that, in otherwise "egalitarian" societies, the differences in physical mobility involved in the complementary tasks carried out by men and women may account for gender inequality on the symbolic domain, given that mobility is a key factor in the construction of personhood in contexts of "relational, "non-individualized identity; and (2) to check the validity ofthat assumption in the light of fieldwork data about gender relationships among the Awá-Guajá.
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Politis, Gustavo Gabriel
González Ruibal, Alfredo
Beserra Cohelo, Elizabeth
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González Ruibal, Alfredo
Beserra Cohelo, Elizabeth
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title Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
title_short Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
title_full Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
title_fullStr Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
title_full_unstemmed Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
title_sort gender, power, and mobility among the awá-guajá (maranhão, brazil)
publisher University of Chicago Press
publishDate 2011
url http://hdl.handle.net/11336/33519
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/33519
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