Uma aldeia vertical: vivências indígenas no Rio de Janeiro

Urban Farm DB summary

A study focused on the experiences and trajectories of three people from different indigenous groups living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in a building from the "Minha Casa, Minha Vida" public housing program known as the "Vertical Village." Based on fieldwork begun in 2016, the research centers on a community garden the interlocutors created in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro City Hall in a set of favelas in the city center; the garden emerges as a space of resistance and a form of political action toward the city and its inhabitants. Drawing on the work of Gow, Battaglia, and Strathern, the paper outlines relations to planting found in other indigenous contexts, arguing that the act of planting forms a mesh of relations connecting family and cultural knowledges, bound up with the formation of bodies through food and particular ways of inhabiting space.