IMAGES OF SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE – THE STYLE OF THE MBYÁ ECONOMICS

Authors

  • Luiz Carlos de Oliveira Lopes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.51525

Keywords:

economy, mbya-guarani, shortages, abundance.

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the Mbya economic forms, based on literature about the Guarani people. Starting from commenting about practices of production and consumption, as discussed in ethnographies about the Guarani, we intend to demonstrate how the "economic forms" are ways of creating and maintaining social ties, both among humans and with certain categories of non-human, relations expressed in a large social network in which the Mbya and other subjectivities are involved. The investigation about the economic ways as a “Guarani subject” from a wide and varied ethnographic production revealed how the Mbya are able to adapt to various situations. We will try to relativize an image which considers the mbya economic forms as governed by reasons related solely to the satisfaction of material needs, involving the use of limited resources. As we will see, the Mbya economics is beyond this Western perspective.

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Author Biography

Luiz Carlos de Oliveira Lopes

Formando em Ciências Sociais e História pela Fundação Educacional Dom André Arcoverde; especialista em Análise Ambiental pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora; mestre em Ciências Sociais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais - UFJF. Atualmente é Docente Auxiliar na Fundação Educacional Dom André Arcoverde, ministrando as disciplinas Antropologia e Sociologia no Núcleo Biomédico (Medicina, Enfermagem e Odontologia) da referida instituição. Também é professor concursado da Secretaria Estadual de Educação do Rio de Janeiro (Sociologia).

Published

2015-06-30

How to Cite

OLIVEIRA LOPES, L. C. de. IMAGES OF SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE – THE STYLE OF THE MBYÁ ECONOMICS. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 9, n. 1, p. 264, 2015. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.51525. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/51525. Acesso em: 24 apr. 2025.

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ESSAY