Os "originais" e os "importados": referências sobre a apreensão wayana dos bens materiais

Authors

  • Lucia Hussak van Velthem

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v27i0.141-159

Keywords:

Foreign Products, Wayana, Brazil, 20th-21st Centuries

Abstract

By examining the history of the Guiana region, this article tries to point out how Brazilian Wayana Indians conceive of others and of industrial products. Analyzing the Indians' perspective on their own material production greatly contributes to the understanding of how foreign products are classified, incorporated and appreciated. This framing coincides with a perspective which, today as well as in the past, is determined by binary oppositions that establish the limits between what is the Indians' own or has been adopted by them, and what is foreign.

Published

2010-01-01

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