Etnodesenvolvimento e o mercado verde na Amazônia indígena

Os Asuriní no Médio Xingu

Bibliographic Data

ID5796178
AuthorsFabio Augusto Nogueira Ribeiro (0000-0003-2193-8228, corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-03-25
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/d.90.2009.tde-23112011-113516
OpenAlexW2128350427
LanguagePT
Citations received1
References cited15

In the last two decades, the synchronous processes of liberalisation of the Brazilian economy and the advancement of environmentalism generated new representations and policies regarding Amazonian rainforests and indigenous peoples.Within this movement, the commercialisation of non timber forest products, through, in a few cases, the implementation of partnerships between the National Indian Foundation of Brazil and companies, began to be presented as a tool for the development of indigenous societies, as well as for environmental conservation.Adopting an ethnodevelopment perspective, however, the central question posed by this dissertation is whether the regimes of production, circulation and consumption devised by this form of 'public-private indigenism" are compatible with their political economies.To advance this question, this study is based on the case of the Asuriní do Xingu, a Tupi group included in the partnership for the commercialisation of Brazil-nut oil between the Amazoncoop cooperative and the UK-based company, The Body Shop.Field research was structured into two levels.At the first level, information about the history and the political economy of the partnership were gathered by means of informal interviews.Results at this level indicate the partnership has been unable of breaking down the historical asymmetry of power which characterises the relationship between indigenous societies and the market economy.At the second level, by means of qualitative and quantitative techniques of data gathering, we collected information regarding Asuriní"s participation in the partnership, as well as the impacts of the trade activity to their domestic economy.In this case, the incompatibility between the indigenous economic regime and that promoted by the partnership implementation was evidenced by food shortages during the harvesting period; by the unequal distribution of monetary incomes among households; by uprising conflicts as regards monetary incomes and reciprocal exchanges of goods, and by their increasing dependence on industrialised goods.Notwithstanding that, the diversity of household economic strategies, the incorporation of money into indigenous conceptualisations of wealth and the continuity of traditional subsistence practices are evidences supporting the argument that an increase in market participation is not a corollary of indigenous peoples" 'acculturation', but a transformation in their form of social reproduction

Amazon rainforest · Economics · Economy · General partnership · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology

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