Territoriality, Kinship Networks and Social Transformations among the Hupd’äh of the Uaupés River basin, Northwest Amazon
Renato Athias, NEPE/UFPE  (Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Etnicidade, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) 

Since the end of the 1950s, efforts have been made to "integrate" Hupd'äh into development actions. However, their "mobility" has always been seen as an obstacle to more efficient work that is promoted by agents of national society. According to population data from DSEI-RN (Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena/Rio Negro), the Hupd'äh population has grown over the past decade. During this period, people have maintained permanent contact with health services and school education in several villages in their traditional territory. This process has created a new network of exchange and business relationships. By revisiting the ethnographic archives collected in the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation seeks to focus on social transformations, the geopolitics of knowledge and economic exchanges. The emphasis is the social relations of different clans with agents of national society, seeking to understand aspects of interethnic relations between the Hupd'äh of this interfluvial territory of the Uaupés River basin.