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Ethnogenesis of a Brazilian Indigenous Community: A Behavior Analytic Interpretation

Behavior and Social Issues

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Title Ethnogenesis of a Brazilian Indigenous Community: A Behavior Analytic Interpretation
 
Creator Baia, Fabio Henrique
Neves, Sônia Maria Mello
Almeida Filho, Júlio Cézar dos Reis
Melo Junior, Ivaldo Ferreira de
Gonçalves Souza, Anna Carolina
Lemes, Isabella Guimarães
 
Subject Behavior Analysis; Cultural Analysis;
Cultural Practices, Metacontingency, Macrocontingency, Tapuios do Carretão
 
Description Ethnogenesis is a process of historic construction from interethnic interactions that originate new social categories, in other words, that form groups that distinguish from the rest of society. In Brazil, after the Constitution of 1988, different groups used their ethnogenesis to obtain recognition of their indigenous condition. One of these groups is the Tapuios do Carretão, a community in Brazil’s centralwest region inhabited by descendants of indigenous, black, and white people, who speak Portuguese and are recognized by the Brazilian government as an indigenous group. The goal of this paper was to reconstruct an ethnogenesis of the Tapuios indigenous group from a Behavior Analysis perspective, thus improving our comprehension of this group’s cultural practices by analyzing the processes that selected them. Behavior-analytical concepts would allow us to further understand changes in cultural practices that occurred due to colonization. Finally, we discuss the importance of laws in planning and changing cultures. For Brazilian indigenous groups, consequences such as the right to land and other benefits had an important role in encouraging members of indigenous communities to seek recognition of their condition.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
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Date 2017-05-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/6856
10.5210/bsi.v26i0.6856
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Vol 26 (2017); 51-66
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/6856/6297
 
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