The Fifth Ward Settlement: A Tri-racial Marginal Group

The Fifth Ward Settlement is the name of a community inhabited by Free jacks a tri-racial (Negro. White,. Indian) marginal group comprised of at least 2,000 individuals. The etymology of the name Free- jack and the development of the Settlement itself go back to the early 1600\u27s. Tracing the development of either is a very complicated and, at best, speculative process. Due to the racial mixture--especially the Negro element—the Free- jack finds himself in social limbo, somewhere between the White and Black. This middle ground has positioned the people of the Settlement into a marginal existence: that is to say, at the edge or margin of both the White Society and the Black Society, but not in the mainstream of either. Within the Settlement, various social strata have developed, based mainly upon an individual’s ability to pass as White. This race-conscious group has developed complex and elaborate means of dealing with their mixed-blood heritage. By studying the intragroup stratification and ways of coping with the marginal existence, it is hoped another perspective can be added to the understanding of race as a social category

Marché mondial de la propriété intellectuelle : entretien avec Darrell Posey

Version anglaise disponible dans la Bibliothèque numérique du CRDI: In conversation with Darrell Pose

In conversation with Darrell Posey

French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Marché mondial de la propriété intellectuelle : entretien avec Darrell Pose

Cupá, ou cipó-babão, alimento de alguns índios amazônicos

INPA is developing studies concerning the agricultural plants of the Brazilian Indians. a collection was made among the Kayapó Indians of the Cupa vine (Cissus gongylodes Burch. ex Baker, Vitaceae). This note provides botanical information on this plant, its uses by the seringueiros (rubber collectors) and by the indians, and agronomical and chemical data

O conhecimento entomológico Kayapó: etnometodologia e sistema cultural

Os índios Kayapó representam uma das maiores tribos que restam na Amazonia. Graças à sua merecida reputação de beligerância e violência (cf. Wagley 1977:31), eles se mantiveram isolados da soledade ocidental envolvente até 1938, ano em que os primeiros missionários estabeleceram contato permanente com os Kayapó Gorotire. Estes se constituíam em apenas um dos vários grupos que se cind:ram, sendo que todos eles haviam estado unificados no passado numa aldeia ancestral poderosa e populosa, a aldeia de Pykatô- ti 2 (Posey 1979b). Uma vez pac1 ficados os Gorotire por meio de bens manufaturados ocidentais e medicamentos, outros grupos Kayapó cessaram suas atividades guerreiras e entraram em contato com funcionários da FUNAI