O tempo dos benefícios sociais: a experiência urbana dos Yuhupdeh em São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM) ; The time of social benefits: the urban experience of the Yuhupdeh in São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM)

This dissertation is an ethnography of the experiences of cash transfer programmes, social security and employment policies, among the Yuhupdeh, indigenous people from the Upper Rio Negro. The work analyses the demand of these groups for social benefits and job exploring the links with the contexts of socio-political relations – indigenous and non-indigenous – in the region. The first chapter deals with the presence of the Yuhupdeh in the urban context: installation in camps, strategies for maintaining families during the period, relations between groups, etc. The second chapter presents a retrospective of indigenous politics throughout the historical process up to its contemporary form, characterized by the promotion of indigenous citizenship.The third chapter discusses how money and commodities circulate in the internal logic of exchange and sharing among the Yuhupdeh people from the notion of “aid”, describing the moral and affective components of exchange relations. The fourth chapter describes and analyses the impact of social benefits and jobs on the debt economy of the regional “aviamento” system. Finally, the conclusion outlines a reflection on “civilization” from the differentiation between “time of the ancients” and “current time” in the contemporary experience of the Yuhupdeh with social benefits and jobs. ; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) ; Esta dissertação é uma etnografia das experiências das políticas de transferência de renda, previdência social e empregos entre os Yuhupdeh, povo indígena do Alto Rio Negro, no contexto de intensificação das viagens a São Gabriel da Cachoeira-AM. O trabalho analisa a procura desses grupos por benefícios sociais e empregos explorando as conexões com os contextos de relações sociopolíticas da região, envolvendo indígenas e não indígenas. O primeiro capítulo trata da presença dos Yuhupdeh na paisagem urbana: a instalação em acampamentos, as estratégias de manutenção das famílias durante o período, as relações entre os diferentes ...