Manuela Carneiro da Cunha

(PhD, University of Campinas 1975) Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, has dealt with indigenous Amazonian cultures, the re-emigration of freed slaves to West Africa in the nineteenth century and the history of Brazilian legislation and policy towards indigenous peoples from the 16th century to the present, focusing on ethnicity, history and myth. She has been much involved with indigenous rights in Brazil; she is presently conducting a multi-disciplinary pilot project in the Amazon on the sustainability of extractive reserves and on Amazonian ethnoscience.
email: mm-cunha@uchicago.edu

Publications:

1990 Notes and Documents. Introduction to "On the Amelioration of Slavery" (1816) by Henry Koster. Slavery and Abolition, A Journal of Comparative Studies II(3):368-376.

1991 Custom is not a Thing, it is a Path: Reflections on the Brazilian Indian Case. In A. An'naim, ed., Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 276-294.

1991 Cannibalisme. In P. Bonte and M. Izard, eds., Dictionnaire de l'Ethnologie et de l'Anthropologie. Paris, Presses Universitaires de Frances, p. 124.

1992 (Editor) Historia dos Indios no Brasil. Sao Paulo, Cia. das Letras, FAPESP/SMC, 612 pp.

1992 Legislacao Indigenista no seculo XIX. Sao Paulo, EDUSP e Comissao pro-Indio, 362 pp.

1993 Imagens de indios do Brasil: o seculo XVI. In Ana Pizarro, ed., America Latina: Palavra, literatura e cultura. Campinas, Brazil: Editora da Unicamp, pp. 151-172.

1993 Les Etudes Ge. L'Homme, (Paris) XXXIII:2-4, pp. 77-93.

1994 (Co-ed. w/ E. Viveiros de Castro), Amazonia: Etnologia e Historia Indigena, Sao Paulo, NHII, USP.

1994 O futuro da questao indigena. Estudos Avancados.

1995 Children, Politics and Culture: the Case of Brazilian Indians. In. S. Stephens, ed., Children and the Politics of Culture. Princeton University Press, 282-291.

2000 (w/ Mauro Almeida) “Indigenous People, Traditional Peopla and Conservation in the Amazon,” in Brazil: Burden of the Past, Promise of the Future. Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Sciences. 129(2): 315-338.

2001 Role of UNESCO in the Defense of Traditional Knowledge. In P. Seitel, ed., Safeguarding Traditional Cultures: A Global Assessment. Washington, DC: Smithsonian/UNESCO.

2001 (w/ Mauro Almeida) Global Environmental Changes and Traditional People. In D. Hogan and M. Tommalsquim, eds. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Brazilian Perspectives. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileria de Ciências, 79-98.

2002 (w/ Mauro Almeida) A Enciclopédia da Floresta: o Alto Juruá. Práticas e Conhecimentos das Populações. São Paulo: Editora Companhia das Letras.