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A’uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil

Following boom-and-bust economic cycles provoked by Brazilian governmental attempts to integrate Indigenous peoples into national society, it is approximately since the beginning of the 2000s that Brazilian Indigenous peoples came to be viewed officially as “poor” and victims of “hunger.” Consequent...

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Autores principales: Welch, James R., Coimbra, Carlos E. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8880766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35213660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264525
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description Following boom-and-bust economic cycles provoked by Brazilian governmental attempts to integrate Indigenous peoples into national society, it is approximately since the beginning of the 2000s that Brazilian Indigenous peoples came to be viewed officially as “poor” and victims of “hunger.” Consequently, the national indigenist agency and other State entities started to conceive and implement diverse initiatives that ultimately injected money and resources into Indigenous communities. In 2019 we undertook an ethnographic study in three A’uwẽ (Xavante) communities in the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Reserve, Central Brazil, with the objective of analyzing how people understand and pursue food security. We propose that in the studied communities the complex network of A’uwẽ food reciprocity is a fundamental strategy for mitigating hunger and acute lack of food. We show that among the A’uwẽ, the hybrid economy that developed since the 1970s has proved resilient to dramatic transformations and uncertainty in the availability and characteristics of external government inputs.
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spelling pubmed-88807662022-02-26 A’uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil Welch, James R. Coimbra, Carlos E. A. PLoS One Research Article Following boom-and-bust economic cycles provoked by Brazilian governmental attempts to integrate Indigenous peoples into national society, it is approximately since the beginning of the 2000s that Brazilian Indigenous peoples came to be viewed officially as “poor” and victims of “hunger.” Consequently, the national indigenist agency and other State entities started to conceive and implement diverse initiatives that ultimately injected money and resources into Indigenous communities. In 2019 we undertook an ethnographic study in three A’uwẽ (Xavante) communities in the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Reserve, Central Brazil, with the objective of analyzing how people understand and pursue food security. We propose that in the studied communities the complex network of A’uwẽ food reciprocity is a fundamental strategy for mitigating hunger and acute lack of food. We show that among the A’uwẽ, the hybrid economy that developed since the 1970s has proved resilient to dramatic transformations and uncertainty in the availability and characteristics of external government inputs. Public Library of Science 2022-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8880766/ /pubmed/35213660 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264525 Text en © 2022 Welch, Coimbra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title A’uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil
title_full A’uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil
title_fullStr A’uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil
title_full_unstemmed A’uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil
title_short A’uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil
title_sort a’uwẽ (xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in central brazil
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8880766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35213660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264525
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