Children, death, and the dead: the Mebengokré-Xikrin case

This article approaches the relations children entertain with the dead, as well as with their own death risk, among the Mebenkogré-Xikrin, an indigenous Jê-speaking Indigenous group living in the North of Brazil. These themes are developed by analyzing the fabrication of the body, the formation of t...

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Main Author: Clarice Cohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Series:Horizontes Antropológicos
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71832010000100005&lng=en&tlng=en