Feminist Perspectives in Indigenous Amazon

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v30i2pe193718

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Indigenous feminism, Women's movements, Cosmopolitics, Egalitarianism, Difference, Violence

Abstract

This introduction draws together the six papers gathered in this special issue, highlighting themes that were prominent in the workshop Feminist Perspectives in Indigenous Amazonia held in June 2021. What do anthropologists and Indigenous women in Amazonia need from feminist epistemology today? How are experienced and emerging scholars reconciling perspectives centered on the alterity of Indigenous Amazonian kinship systems and cosmologies, which have been so extraordinarily productive and creative for Amazonianists and for wider anthropology, in this era when colonial and postcolonial violence are at the forefront of the political agendas and everyday experiences of many Indigenous women? Women are facing oil companies, and organizing in response to new forms of misogyny, and exclusions (from state wealth, education, formal decision-making). They are also grasping new opportunities conferred by mobility, by the reconfiguration of masculine roles, and by higher education. This Introduction presents some of the ways that anthropologists and Indigenous women are figuring out what a feminist perspective in Indigenous Amazonia might be.

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Author Biographies

  • Aline Regitano, Universidade de São Paulo
    Aline Regitano is PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and associate researcher  in the Centro de Estudos Ameríndios - CEstA/USP.  She obtained her Masters in Social Anthropology at the State University of Campinas and was guest researcher at the a University of St. Andrews.  
  • Chloe Nahum-Claudel, University of Manchester

    Chloe is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, in the United Kingdom. Between 2006 and 2013, during her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she conducted 18 months fieldwork with the Enawenê-nawê in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state at a time when several hydropower dams were being constructed in their fishing waters. Vital Diplomacy: the ritual everyday on a dammed river in Amazonia (Berghahn 2018) is about the community’s ritualized response to the rupture implied by resource capture, conceptualised in terms of diplomacy. In addition to her work on the political potential of ritual activity, and on Indigenous diplomacy, she has worked on human relationships with the environment, gender and kinship, and structuralism and semiotics. Since 2015 she has been researching witch-hunts in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, which has led to her adopt a more explicitly feminist epistemology, opening new perspectives for her work in Amazonia. 

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Regitano, A., & Nahum-Claudel, C. (2021). Feminist Perspectives in Indigenous Amazon. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 30(2), e193718. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v30i2pe193718