Título:	O centro de pesquisa indígena e o projeto jaburu a partir das relações entre movimentos indígenas, ambientalismos e indigenismos
Autor(es):	Oliveira, Ricardo Alexandre Pereira de
Orientador(es):	Sá, Guilherme José da Silva e
Assunto:	Movimentos indígenas Xavánte Antropoceno
Data de publicação:	28-Mai-2026
Data de defesa:	12-Dez-2025
Referência:	OLIVEIRA, Ricardo Alexandre Pereira de. O centro de pesquisa indígena e o projeto jaburu a partir das relações entre movimentos indígenas, ambientalismos e indigenismos. 2025. 256 f., il. Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia Social) — Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2025.
Abstract:	This dissertation examines sociotechnical networks constituted at the turn of the 1980s into the 1990s, which articulated Indigenous leaderships, scientists, environmentalists, research institutions, animals, and biomes around "fauna and flora projects" oriented toward reforestation and the management of game fauna. Drawing on two empirical axes — the Centro de Pesquisa Indígena (CPI, Indigenous Research Center), based in Goiânia (GO), and the Projeto Jaburu, developed in the Xavante Indigenous Territory of Pimentel Barbosa (MT) —the research describes emergent associations among segments of the Indigenous movement, environmentalism, and indigenism in the context of Brazil's democratization. Two formative experiences are examined: the reservation of special places for Indigenous students in the Law program at the Universidade Católica de Goiás (UCG), established through an agreement with the União das Nações Indígenas (UNI), which produced Brazil's first Indigenous lawyer; and the inaugural cohort of the extension course in Applied Biology, articulated among UNI, UCG, Embrapa, the Zoobotanical Foundation, and ESALQ-USP. The analysis departs from the dream of Xavante shaman Sibupá — narrated by members of A'uwê Uptabi factions as the mythic origin of these initiatives — to investigate how Indigenous cosmologies shaped conservation projects and technical training mediated by non-Indigenous agents from the natural sciences and Law. The central objective is to understand how distinct modes of authority, collectivedeliberation, and perception of the social interacted in the constitution of an innovative socioenvironmental arena, situated at the intersection of scientific and Indigenous knowledge. Particular emphasis is placed on the Xavante history of refusal of the "national" way of life based on agriculture — whether family-based or industrial — a refusal traceable to the eighteenth century and running through successive colonial and state attempts to transform this people of hunters and gatherers into farmers, from the colonial period through the military dictatorship. The research draws on interviews with Indigenous researchers, university faculty, and environmentalists, on fieldwork visits to the Xavante territory of Pimentel Barbosa, and on consultation of personal and institutional archives. The analysis foregrounds a structuring controversy: actors' perceptions range from characterizations of the initiatives as projects "that did not work" to assessments of full success. I argue that divergent ontological starting points produced distinct and enduring effects, unfolding over nearly four decades. I demonstrate that Xavante conceptions of relations between humans and non-humans largely guided the formulation of game fauna management practices, challenging the premise of a "native error" to be corrected by science. The dialogue between cosmologies and scientific practices generated productive effects, even as it frustrated the specific objectives of the technicians involved. The conclusion is that the experiences analyzed anticipate contemporary debates on the Anthropocene and the Plantationocene, and should be understood not as isolated episodes, but as cosmopolitical experimentations at a historical moment marked by growing interconnection among historicities hitherto treated in parallel.
Unidade Acadêmica:	Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) Departamento de Antropologia (ICS DAN)
Informações adicionais:	Tese (Doutorado) — Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Antropologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social, 2025.
Programa de pós-graduação:	Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social
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Agência financiadora:	Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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