Tapirs, tractors and tapes: The changing economy and ecology of the Xavante Indians of Central Brazil

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dc.contributor.authorSantos, Ricardo Ventura
dc.contributor.authorFlowers, Nancy M.
dc.contributor.authorCoimbra Junior, Carlos Everaldo Alvares
dc.contributor.authorGugelmin, Silvia A.
dc.creator.affilliationFundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca. Departamento de Endemias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional. Departamento de Antropologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasilen_US
dc.creator.affilliationUniversity of New York. Hunter College. Departament of Antrhopology. Park Avenue, NY, EUA.en_US
dc.creator.affilliationFundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca. Departamento de Endemias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasilen_US
dc.creator.affilliationFundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca. Departamento de Endemias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasilen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-10T11:59:26Z
dc.date.available2019-12-10T11:59:26Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.description.abstractenThis paper explores the process of change in a Brazilian indigenous community, relating it to historical, economical, and political forces at the regional and national levels, as well as to environmental variables. In the light of current fieldwork, we examine the predictions of a model constructed 20 years ago based on fieldwork in this and three other Indian communities of Central Brazil by Daniel Gross and collaborators. This model ascribed involvement in the market economy of small-scale communities primarily to land circumscription and resulting environmental degradation, increasing the labor cost of subsistence food production. We find that in the case of the Xavánte community entry into the market was more the result of a top-down government plan to implement mechanized rice production on Xavánte reservations. With the collapse of the project the Xavánte have, on the one hand, returned to a more “traditional” economy based on hunting, gathering, and swidden agriculture and, on the other hand, are innovating by marketing their cultural image through connections with national and international environmentalist organizations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSANTOS, Ricardo Ventura et al. Tapirs, tractors and tapes: The changing economy and ecology of the Xavante Indians from Central Brazil. Human Ecology, v. 25, n. 4, p. 545-566, 1997.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1023/A:1021881823603
dc.identifier.issn1572-9915
dc.identifier.issn0300-7839
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.bvspovosindigenas.fiocruz.br/handle/bvs/1408
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subject.decsBrasilen_US
dc.subject.decsSaúde de Populações Indígenasen_US
dc.subject.decsÍndios Sul-Americanosen_US
dc.subject.decsEcossistema Amazônicoen_US
dc.subject.decsComportamento Alimentaren_US
dc.subject.decsEcologia Humanaen_US
dc.subject.decsProdução de Alimentosen_US
dc.subject.decsNutriçãoen_US
dc.subject.decsAlimentos, Dieta e Nutriçãoen_US
dc.subject.otherBrasilen_US
dc.subject.otherÍndios Sul-Americanosen_US
dc.subject.otherSaúde de Populações Indígenasen_US
dc.subject.otherMato Grossoen_US
dc.subject.otherRegião Amazônicaen_US
dc.subject.otherRegião Centro-Oesteen_US
dc.subject.otherNutriçãoen_US
dc.subject.otherXavanteen_US
dc.subject.otherAgriculturaen_US
dc.subject.otherXavánteen_US
dc.subject.otherComportamento Alimentaren_US
dc.subject.otherEcologia Humanaen_US
dc.subject.otherPráticas de Subsistênciaen_US
dc.subject.otherProdução de Alimentosen_US
dc.subject.otherAlimentação e Nutriçãoen_US
dc.titleTapirs, tractors and tapes: The changing economy and ecology of the Xavante Indians of Central Brazilen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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