Contesting the Reservoir
Guarani-Mbya Criticisms of Zoonosis, Race, and Dirt in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5046965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno Silva Santos (0000-0001-6042-8015, University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 354-368 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2023.2199356 |
| PMID | 37522965 |
| OpenAlex | W4385407057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
In Brazil, epidemiological understandings of zoonosis have historically articulated with race and class hierarchies, placing so-called non-modern bodies at the core of etiological theories and sanitary interventions. I describe how the Guarani-Mbya people living in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land in the city of São Paulo question the racialized narratives that human-rat contact is a major driver of infections such as leptospirosis. By analyzing Indigenous concepts of body, disease, and dirt, I suggest that the Guarani-Mbya disease ontology reflects a criticism of urbanization, in that it is considered to have pathogenic effects on the lives of Indigenous peoples and rats
Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Race (biology · Sociology · Zoonosis · Anthropology · Ecology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Immunology · Medicine · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Zoonotic diseases and public health
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Mosquito Trails
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A instituição da microbiologia e a história da saúde pública no Brasil
The Falling Sky
“Alimento morto” e os donos na cidade
Pouca saúde, muita saúva, os males do Brasil são… Discurso médico-sanitário e interpretação do país
An infection of locality’
Race, Space and Toilets
Not What, but Where
The Sanitation Syndrome
Beleza das matas e a sujeira das cidades
Cargo, "Infection," and the Logic of Quarantine in the Nineteenth Century
Mahamari Plague
Saúde e doença em aldeias Guarani
I'm not dog, no
Dó E Alegria
Shadowlands and dark corners
Blaming the rat
Taxonomías relacionales o de qué se valen los qom y los animales para clasificarse
Nosso Pai, Nosso Dono
The Masters and the Slaves [Casa-Grande and Senzala]
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
Chronically Unstable Bodies
Cashinahua perspectives on functional anatomy
Zoonotic diagrams
Feasting on People
In praise of the everyday
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |