Abstract

MATTA, Priscila. Vegetables as indices of Amerindian relations. Etnográfica [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp.663-676. ISSN 0873-6561.

This article aims to make explicit how the Araweté - speakers of a Tupi-Guarani language inhabiting in the Middle Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon - conceive and access vegetable elements, with reference to relational dynamics and meaning systems involving them. To address this discussion, the planted and non-planted markers, as well as the notion of mastery, will be explored.

Keywords : Amerindians; Amazon; vegetables elements; indices of relations; owners.

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