A'uwẽ (Xavante) Social Constructions of Well-Being in Central Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4564409
AutoresJ R Welch (0000-0002-9094-5491, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume40
Fascículo8
Páginas799-814
Data de publicação2021-11-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2021.1961247
PMID34383573
OpenAlexW3189025190
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas42

Well-being is a heterogeneous idea with inconsistent applicability to real-world circumstances. In this article, I explore A'uwẽ (Xavante) notions of social well-being from an ethnographic perspective. My data indicate many members of this Indigenous group understand wellness to involve not only health and harmony, but also certain modes of strife and inequality that are also viewed as desirable. A'uwẽ understandings of social wellness, including linkages to the environment, suggest that a broader and more locally contingent concept of social well-being than is evident in mainstream literature would benefit transcultural health efforts and policy involving Indigenous and other culturally distinct communities

Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Harmony (color · Indigenous · Inequality · Mainstream · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Well-being · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology