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The Upper Rio Negro region is remarkable not only for its high linguistic and ethnic diversity, b... more The Upper Rio Negro region is remarkable not only for its high linguistic and ethnic diversity, but also for the history of multilingualism and cultural interchange that have brought its peoples together. The fourteen chapters of this volume investigate this interaction, drawing on the insights provided by the languages and cultures of the region, and exploring how the Upper Rio Negro profile has been shaped by forces promoting both similarity and difference. The collection draws on the growing dialogue between linguists and anthropologists, and emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to questions that involve both language and culture.

Companion volume to Alto Xingu, uma Sociedade Multilíngue (Franchetto, 2011), both available for download on the Museunacional link.

Papers by Aloisio Cabalzar

Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation

Springer Protocols Handbooks, 2018

Biocultural collections document human-nature interactions through plant and animal-based artifac... more Biocultural collections document human-nature interactions through plant and animal-based artifacts, raw materials, herbarium voucher collections, and varied forms of documentation. They form a valuable resource for biocultural conservation, preserving and enhancing traditional knowledge, livelihoods, and the environment. They should be used through participatory methods that allow institutional researchers and local communities to share data on ethnobiological collections and artifacts, enabling new knowledge of plants and people from multiple perspectives. Methods are demonstrated through a case study of historic ethnobotanical specimens collected by Richard Spruce in the northwest Amazon.

Revista de Antropologia, 2000

Mestre em Antropologia Social-USP e assessor do Programa Rio Negro do ISA RESUMO: Considerando a ... more Mestre em Antropologia Social-USP e assessor do Programa Rio Negro do ISA RESUMO: Considerando a situação atual das pesquisas sobre organização social no noroeste amazônico, este ensaio propõe uma interpretação de como relações baseadas na descendência patrilinear e na aliança estão articuladas e organizadas espacialmente, para o caso dos Tuyuka do alto Tiquié (bacia do Uaupés). O modelo que surge está fundamentado em distinções entre duas formas de grupo local, que compõem um nexo regional formado por centro e periferia. Este modelo permite vislumbrar um sistema social uaupesiano com áreas em que predominam valores baseados no agnatismo, na língua comum e na exogamia, e como estas áreas estão conectadas entre si. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: índios Tuyuka-organização social, índios Tuyuka-Tukano Oriental, rio Tiquié-Sistema Uaupés, Pirá-paraná-noroeste amazônico. Recebido em dezembro de 1999.

Organizado pelo antropólogo Aloisio Cabalzar, ilustrado por Mauro Lopes e com pesquisa ictiológic... more Organizado pelo antropólogo Aloisio Cabalzar, ilustrado por Mauro Lopes e com pesquisa ictiológica de Flávio Lima, o livro enfoca a relação dos índios tukano e tuyuka com os peixes do Alto Rio Tiquié, no noroeste da Amazônia, importantes na cosmologia e na alimentação desses povos. Fruto da parceria entre o ISA, as associações indígenas do alto Tiquié, o Museu de Zoologia da USP e a Federação das Organizações Indígenas do Rio Negro, (Foirn) a publicação traz pesquisa inédita no Brasil sobre a diversidade de peixes de uma região, a do rio Tiquié, no Alto Rio Negro, reunindo os conhecimentos indígenas e o conhecimento -icitiológico. O estudo etnográfico abrange conhecimentos tuyuka e tukano sobre a ecologia de cada espécie, e analisa os mitos e conceitos cosmológicos relacionados à origem dos peixes e suas relações com a humanidade. Já a pesquisa ictiológica se debruça sobre a classificação das espécies de peixes e a descrição de sua morfologia. Os Tukano e os Tuyuka participaram e acompanharam todas as etapas do estudo, que consumiu mais de quatro anos de pesquisa, em um esforço intercultural e interdisciplinar, que não se esgotam nesta publicação. Peixe e Gente continuará a ser tema de pesquisa das escolas indígenas e das atividades de gestão de recursos naturais.

Sustainability Science, 2015

Identifying appropriate temporal and spatial boundaries for assessments of human-environment syst... more Identifying appropriate temporal and spatial boundaries for assessments of human-environment systems continues to be a challenge in sustainability science. The livelihood of Indigenous peoples in the northwestern Brazilian Amazon are characterized by complex ecological management systems entwined with sociocultural practices and sophisticated astronomical and ecological calendars. Sustainability of fisheries and bitter manioc production, key elements of food systems and economic activities in this region, depend on cyclic high river levels for fish spawning as well as periods of dry days for preparation of agricultural fields. Since 2005, participatory research has been underway between Indigenous communities of the Tiquié River and the Brazilian Socio-environmental Institute (ISA). Indigenous agents of environmental management (AIMAs) keep notebooks of ethno-astronomical, ecological, and socioeconomic observations of the annual cycles, and some of them have reported that river levels and dry periods have become more irregular in some years. To investigate how these possible climatic changes may impact the sustainability of resources, we share knowledge from the Tukano ecological calendar with methodology for examining changes in precipitation and river levels and their interactions at multiple timescales. Our collaboration indicates that high spatial and temporal variability in precipitation patterns and river levels may complicate climate change and sustainability analyses. However, combining results from participatory research with novel methods for climate analysis helps identify a 4-day trend in precipitation that may impact agroecosystem management. Indigenous participation in systematic data collection and interpretation of results is essential for distinguishing between socioeconomic and climate forcings and evaluating climate impacts. Continued efforts to bridge Indigenous and Western knowledge systems are vital for sustainable environmental management in Indigenous territories and other regions where traditional management may be challenged in the context of global climate change.

The Upper Rio Negro region is remarkable not only for its high linguistic and ethnic diversity, b... more The Upper Rio Negro region is remarkable not only for its high linguistic and ethnic diversity, but also for the history of multilingualism and cultural interchange that have brought its peoples together. The fourteen chapters of this volume investigate this interaction, drawing on the insights provided by the languages and cultures of the region, and exploring how the Upper Rio Negro profile has been shaped by forces promoting both similarity and difference. The collection draws on the growing dialogue between linguists and anthropologists, and emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to questions that involve both language and culture.

Companion volume to Alto Xingu, uma Sociedade Multilíngue (Franchetto, 2011), both available for download on the Museunacional link.

Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation

Springer Protocols Handbooks, 2018

Biocultural collections document human-nature interactions through plant and animal-based artifac... more Biocultural collections document human-nature interactions through plant and animal-based artifacts, raw materials, herbarium voucher collections, and varied forms of documentation. They form a valuable resource for biocultural conservation, preserving and enhancing traditional knowledge, livelihoods, and the environment. They should be used through participatory methods that allow institutional researchers and local communities to share data on ethnobiological collections and artifacts, enabling new knowledge of plants and people from multiple perspectives. Methods are demonstrated through a case study of historic ethnobotanical specimens collected by Richard Spruce in the northwest Amazon.

Revista de Antropologia, 2000

Mestre em Antropologia Social-USP e assessor do Programa Rio Negro do ISA RESUMO: Considerando a ... more Mestre em Antropologia Social-USP e assessor do Programa Rio Negro do ISA RESUMO: Considerando a situação atual das pesquisas sobre organização social no noroeste amazônico, este ensaio propõe uma interpretação de como relações baseadas na descendência patrilinear e na aliança estão articuladas e organizadas espacialmente, para o caso dos Tuyuka do alto Tiquié (bacia do Uaupés). O modelo que surge está fundamentado em distinções entre duas formas de grupo local, que compõem um nexo regional formado por centro e periferia. Este modelo permite vislumbrar um sistema social uaupesiano com áreas em que predominam valores baseados no agnatismo, na língua comum e na exogamia, e como estas áreas estão conectadas entre si. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: índios Tuyuka-organização social, índios Tuyuka-Tukano Oriental, rio Tiquié-Sistema Uaupés, Pirá-paraná-noroeste amazônico. Recebido em dezembro de 1999.

Organizado pelo antropólogo Aloisio Cabalzar, ilustrado por Mauro Lopes e com pesquisa ictiológic... more Organizado pelo antropólogo Aloisio Cabalzar, ilustrado por Mauro Lopes e com pesquisa ictiológica de Flávio Lima, o livro enfoca a relação dos índios tukano e tuyuka com os peixes do Alto Rio Tiquié, no noroeste da Amazônia, importantes na cosmologia e na alimentação desses povos. Fruto da parceria entre o ISA, as associações indígenas do alto Tiquié, o Museu de Zoologia da USP e a Federação das Organizações Indígenas do Rio Negro, (Foirn) a publicação traz pesquisa inédita no Brasil sobre a diversidade de peixes de uma região, a do rio Tiquié, no Alto Rio Negro, reunindo os conhecimentos indígenas e o conhecimento -icitiológico. O estudo etnográfico abrange conhecimentos tuyuka e tukano sobre a ecologia de cada espécie, e analisa os mitos e conceitos cosmológicos relacionados à origem dos peixes e suas relações com a humanidade. Já a pesquisa ictiológica se debruça sobre a classificação das espécies de peixes e a descrição de sua morfologia. Os Tukano e os Tuyuka participaram e acompanharam todas as etapas do estudo, que consumiu mais de quatro anos de pesquisa, em um esforço intercultural e interdisciplinar, que não se esgotam nesta publicação. Peixe e Gente continuará a ser tema de pesquisa das escolas indígenas e das atividades de gestão de recursos naturais.

Sustainability Science, 2015

Identifying appropriate temporal and spatial boundaries for assessments of human-environment syst... more Identifying appropriate temporal and spatial boundaries for assessments of human-environment systems continues to be a challenge in sustainability science. The livelihood of Indigenous peoples in the northwestern Brazilian Amazon are characterized by complex ecological management systems entwined with sociocultural practices and sophisticated astronomical and ecological calendars. Sustainability of fisheries and bitter manioc production, key elements of food systems and economic activities in this region, depend on cyclic high river levels for fish spawning as well as periods of dry days for preparation of agricultural fields. Since 2005, participatory research has been underway between Indigenous communities of the Tiquié River and the Brazilian Socio-environmental Institute (ISA). Indigenous agents of environmental management (AIMAs) keep notebooks of ethno-astronomical, ecological, and socioeconomic observations of the annual cycles, and some of them have reported that river levels and dry periods have become more irregular in some years. To investigate how these possible climatic changes may impact the sustainability of resources, we share knowledge from the Tukano ecological calendar with methodology for examining changes in precipitation and river levels and their interactions at multiple timescales. Our collaboration indicates that high spatial and temporal variability in precipitation patterns and river levels may complicate climate change and sustainability analyses. However, combining results from participatory research with novel methods for climate analysis helps identify a 4-day trend in precipitation that may impact agroecosystem management. Indigenous participation in systematic data collection and interpretation of results is essential for distinguishing between socioeconomic and climate forcings and evaluating climate impacts. Continued efforts to bridge Indigenous and Western knowledge systems are vital for sustainable environmental management in Indigenous territories and other regions where traditional management may be challenged in the context of global climate change.