Demografia genética dos índios Ticuna da Amazônia

Salzano, Francisco M.; Jacques, Sidia Maria Callegari; Neel, James V.

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“…Salzano reported to Neel that Turner encouragingly suggested that three Kayapó communities' population structure 'fits very nicely on our fission-fusion model'. 89 He pursued similar questions with social anthropologist Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira in a 1970 genetic study of Terena communities. 90 Salzano would continue to consider fission-fusion essential to understand prehistoric human micro-differentiation and one of his key contributions to the field, but in his future publications he would not emphasize masculine leadership in the same terms.…”

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“…40 There were few local scholars with field experience in the kind of Indigenous communitiesthose with least contact with surrounding settler societythat the geneticists privileged. 41 When Salzano finally heard of David Maybury-Lewis's work and Neel confirmed the newly appointed Harvard professor's willingness to collaborate, Maybury-Lewis's addition cemented their choice to conduct their first study in a Xavante village. 42 Scientific motivations: the search for mechanisms of human evolution Salzano and Neel developed their studies of Indigenous groups to address a pressing scientific question: what were the underlying selection mechanisms driving human evolution?…”

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Subject 01: exemplary Indigenous masculinity in Cold War genetics

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In 1962 a team of scientists conducted their first joint fieldwork in a Xavante village in Central Brazil. Recycling long-standing notions that living Indigenous people represented human prehistory, the scientists saw Indigenous people as useful subjects of study not only due to their closeness to nature, but also due to their sociocultural and political realities. The geneticists’ vision crystalized around one subject – the famous chief Apöwẽ. Through Apöwẽ, the geneticists fixated on what they perceived as the political prowess, impressive physique, and masculine reproductive aptitude of Xavante men. These constructions of charismatic masculinity came at the expense of recognizing how profoundly colonial expansion into Mato Grosso had destabilized Xavante communities, stripping them of their land and introducing epidemic disease. The geneticists’ theorizing prefigured debates to come in sociobiology, and set up an enduring research programme that Apöwẽ continues to animate even four decades after his death.

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