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SISTEMA DE ENSINO PRESENCIAL CONECTADO
HISTORIA

CLAUDIA APARECIDA MACHADO

DIVERSIDADE ENTRE BRANCOS E INDIOS

São Jose des Pinhais
2009

CLAUDIA APARECIDA MACHADO

DIVERSIDADE ENTRE BRANCOS E INDIOS

Trabalho apresentado ao Curso Historia da UNOPAR - Universidade Norte do Paraná, para a disciplina antropologia Cultural II.

Orientador: Prof. Giane Albiazzetti

São Jose dos Pinhais

2009

DIVERSIDADE ENTRE BRANCOS E INDIOS

A antropologia não era e ainda não e a única ciência a dar conta de estudar a cultura, mas tradicionalmente ela contribui, e muito, para desvendar os mistérios das diversidades culturais entre os homens. Foi muito importante a descoberta realizada pelos primeiros antropólogos sobre as diferenças culturais. Pois, contribuíram para o entendimento dos processos de transformação por que passam as sociedades contemporâneas. Assim como os processos migratórios que aceleraram essas transformações. A discussão que a Geografia faz ao analisar o fenômeno social da cultura e toda sua dinâmica, a partir da corrente do pensamento geográfico determinista, remete-nos a pensar a questão do determinismo ambiental, a idéia de que as diferenças culturais são resultado do meio pelo qual uma população esta inserida. Já no século XIX, foram muitas as criticas sobre os argumentos do determinismo. Embora exista uma relação próxima da cultura e do meio, dizer que o meio e determinante da cultura não explica as diferenças culturais entre povos. Então, podemos questionar em sala de aula: e os grupos sociais que vivem em ambientes geográficos semelhantes, mas são culturalmente diferentes? Vejamos o exemplo deste fato que o antropólogo Laraia apresenta ao exemplificar as diferenças culturais entre os xinguanos que vivem no mesmo limite do Parque Nacional do Xingu: “Os xinguanos propriamente ditos (Kamayurá, Kalapalo, Trumai, Waurá, etc.) desprezam

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