CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS´S AND DARCY RIBEIRO´S INDIGENOUS AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY

  • Alice Agnes Spíndola Mota Universidade Federal do Tocantins
Keywords: Anthropology, Indigenous Auto-Ethnography, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Darcy Ribeiro.

Abstract

Current paper analyzes auto-ethnography in indigenous societies in the research work of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Darcy Ribeiro in Brazil. Reports in Tristes Trópicos (1955) and Diários Índios (1996) give different anthropological perspectives of Brazilian tribes isolated in the northern and mid-western regions of Brazil and describe the experiences by their authors, Lévi-Strauss and Darcy Ribeiro, respectively in the 1930s and by the end of the 1940s. When the ethnographic gaze and the auto-ethnographic images of these works are analyzed, we find the comparisons and the dialogues between the anthropologists´ works with the Urubus-Kaapor in the state of Maranhão and with the Nambikwara in the state of Mato Grosso.

Author Biography

Alice Agnes Spíndola Mota, Universidade Federal do Tocantins
Doutoranda em Antropologia pelo Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE) Portugal; Docente do Curso de Comunicação Social na Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT), Brasil.
Published
2015-08-07
Section
Artigos de Revisão