Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)

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dc.creatorHernando, Almudena
dc.creatorPolitis, Gustavo Gabriel
dc.creatorGonzález Ruibal, Alfredo
dc.creatorBeserra Cohelo, Elizabeth
dc.date2011
dc.descriptionThe Awá (also known as Guajá) are hunter-gatherers whose way of life prior to their first contact with Brazilian society has been altered after relocation to a reservation. Basically, their mobility is reduced and they have been forced to start cultivation. Although these changes are beginning to affect women's social role, the traditional power relationships can still be inferred from the present conditions. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to argue that, in otherwise "egalitarian" societies, the differences in physical mobility involved in the complementary tasks carried out by men and women may account for gender inequality on the symbolic domain, given that mobility is a key factor in the construction of personhood in contexts of "relational, "non-individualized identity; and (2) to check the validity ofthat assumption in the light of fieldwork data about gender relationships among the Awá-Guajá.
dc.descriptionFil: Hernando, Almudena. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España
dc.descriptionFil: Politis, Gustavo Gabriel. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: González Ruibal, Alfredo. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
dc.descriptionFil: Beserra Cohelo, Elizabeth. Universidad Federal do Maranhão; Brasil
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dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/33519
dc.identifierGonzález Ruibal, Alfredo; Beserra Cohelo, Elizabeth; Hernando, Almudena; Politis, Gustavo Gabriel; Gender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil); University of Chicago Press; Journal of Archaeological Research; 67; 2; 2011; 189-211
dc.identifier1059-0161
dc.identifierCONICET Digital
dc.identifierCONICET
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3998/jar.0521004.0067.203
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.3998/jar.0521004.0067.203
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dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
dc.subjectAwa-Guaja
dc.subjectEgalitarian Societies
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectPersonhood
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.titleGender, power, and mobility among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
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