The Xavante in perspective: anthropology and history in the study of indigenous populations

Authors

  • Rosanna Dent Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20947/S0102-30982016a0050

Abstract

Review of

COIMBRA JR., C. E. A.; WELCH, J. R. (Org.). Antropologia e
história Xavante em perspectiva. Rio de Janeiro: Museu do
Índio/Funai, 2014. 216p.

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Author Biography

Rosanna Dent, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Rosanna Dent is doctoral candidate, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania (PhD expected May 2016); MA, History and Sociology of Science, University of  Pennsylvania; BA with honors, Biology, Brown University.

References

COIMBRA JR., C. E. A.; FLOWERS, N. M.; SALZANO, F. M.; SANTOS, R. V. The Xavante in transition: health, ecology, and bioanthropology in central Brazil. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

FLOWERS, N. M. Forager farmers: The Xavante indians of central Brazil. Ph.D, City University of New York, USA, 1983.

GROSS, D. R.; EITAN, G.; FLOWERS, N. M.; LEOI, F. M.; RITTER, M. L.; WERNER, D. W. Ecology and acculturation among native peoples of central Brazil. Science, v. 206, n. 4422, p. 1043-50, 1979.

MAYBURY-LEWIS, D. The savage and the innocent. 2. ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.

_________. Akwe-Shavante society. 2. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.

NEEL, J. V.; SALZANO, F. M.; KEITER, F.; MAYBURY-LEWIS, D; JUNQUEIRA, P. C. C. Studies on the Xavante indians of the Brazilian Mato Grosso. American Journal of Human Genetics, v. 16, n. 1, p. 52-140, 1964.

SALZANO, F. M.; NEEL, J. V.; MAYBURY-LEWIS, D. Further studies on the Xavante indians. 1. Demographic data on two additional villages: genetic structure of the tribe. American Journal of Human Genetics, v. 19, n. 4, p. 463-89, 1967.

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Published

2016-11-13

How to Cite

Dent, R. (2016). The Xavante in perspective: anthropology and history in the study of indigenous populations. Brazilian Journal of Population Studies, 33(2), 451–455. https://doi.org/10.20947/S0102-30982016a0050

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Book Review

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