Struggle, aid and sacrifice in animal breeding by the ‘people’ of góis-ce
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2019v24n3p42Keywords:
Partisanship, Sacrifice, Time, Rearing relations, LivestockAbstract
This article has as main themes the ‘sacrifice’ and ‘peleja (struggle)’ in raising relations constituted by small landowners and their livestock in a rural community called Góis, located in Northeast Brazil. The article aims to submerge the reader in the house environment, where the activities related to the caring for animals flourishes by the legs and hands of grandmothers and mothers. These are women that assume the authority over the raising knowledge and properly practices on the ‘peleja’ with kin and animals. Together with the ‘povo’, or the community of persons who lives and transits between the house of Góis landowners, mothers and grandmothers struggles with children, grandchildren and livestock in order to make their live flourish. As I show in the article, web of aids are essentials to the struggle with kin and animals. Aids are given and received where kin have houses and chickens have coops. These aids are often remembered in ‘histories’ and accompanied with ‘sacrifices’ implicated in rearing relations with pigs, goats and chickens called ‘trabalhosos’ (laborious) by their breeders.References
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IBGE. Ipueiras. Brasília, [20--]. Disponível em: https://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/visualizacao/dtbs/ceara/ipueiras.pdf. Acesso em: 12 out. 2017.
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KOHN, E. How forests think: toward an anthropology beyond the human. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
LAMBEK, M. Afterthoughts on sacrifice. Ethnos, Stockholm, v. 79, n. 3, p. 430-437, 2014.
LAMBEK, M. Sacrifice and the problem of beginning: meditations from Sakalava mythopraxis. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, v. 13, p. 19-38, 2007.
LAW, J.; MOL, A. El actor-actuado: la oveja de la Cumbria en 2001. Política y Sociedad, Madrid, v. 45, n. 3, p. 75-92, 2008.
LÉVI-STRAUSS, C. A via das máscaras. Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1979.
LÉVI-STRAUSS, C. O totemismo hoje. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1975.
MALINOWSKI, B. The problem of meaning in primitive language. In: ODGEN, C. K.; RICHARDS, I. A. (org.). The meaning of meaning: a study of the influence of language upon thought and of the science of symbolism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953. p. 296-337.
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MAYBLIN, M. Gender, catholicism, and morality in Brazil. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010a.
MAYBLIN, M. Learning courage: child labour as moral practice in Northeast Brazil. Ethnos, Stockholm, v. 75, n. 1, p. 23-48, Mar. 2010b.
MAYBLIN, M. The untold sacrifice: the monotony and incompleteness of self-sacrifice in Northeast Brazil. Ethnos, Stockholm, v. 79, n. 3, p. 342-364, 2014.
PALMEIRA, M. Política e tempo: notas exploratórias. In: PEIRANO, M. (org.). O dito e o feito. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2002. p. 171-179.
PEIRCE, C. Of reasoning in general (1895). In: PEIRCE EDITION PROJECT (ed.). The essential Peirce: selected philosophical writings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. v. 2, p. 11-26.
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STENGERS, I.; PIGNARRE, P. La sorcellerie capitaliste: pratiques de désenvoûtement. Paris: La Découverte, 2005.
TEIXEIRA, L.; AYOUB, D. Cachorros que atacam criação: reflexões éticas sobre a mobilidade e a vida social dos animais em ambientes rurais. Iluminuras, Porto Alegre, v. 17, n. 42, p. 136-165, ago./dez. 2016.
TSING, A. Unruly edges: mushrooms as companion species. Environmental Humanities, Durham, v. 1, p. 141-154, 2012.
WATERSON, R. Living house: an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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VIRGILIO, Nathan Lima. Struggle, aid and sacrifice in animal breeding by the ‘people’ of góis-ce. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 24, n. 3, p. 42–56, 2019. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2019v24n3p42. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/37495. Acesso em: 24 aug. 2024.
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