Indigenous anthropologies and the issue of positionality

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/aa.10521

Keywords:

higher education, indigenous students, ecumenical anthropology, positionality, Alcida Rita Ramos

Abstract

More than five years ago, when the author began to draft this text, in which I participated as one of her interlocutors, our contact, just started, became a student-advisor relationship for my doctoral research. Back then, we began to discuss the issue of indigenous scholars entering anthropology through its front door as students in graduate programs, seeking a degree and anthropological expertise.

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Author Biography

Felipe Tuxá, Universidade Federal da Bahia

PhD in Social Anthropology at the Universidade de Brasília. Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. His research interests are violations of indigenous rights in Brazil, anthropology of violence, indigenous genocides and colonialism.

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Published

2023-04-28

How to Cite

Tuxá, Felipe. 2023. “Indigenous Anthropologies and the Issue of Positionality”. Anuário Antropológico 48 (1):67-72. https://doi.org/10.4000/aa.10521.