Ethnogenesis is a process of historic construction from interethnic interactions that originate new social categories, in other words, that form groups that distinguish from the rest of society. In Brazil, after the Constitution of 1988, different groups used their ethnogenesis to obtain recognition of their indigenous condition. One of these groups is the Tapuios do Carretão, a community in Brazil’s central-west region inhabited by descendants of indigenous, black, and white people, who speak Portuguese and are recognized by the Brazilian government as an indigenous group. The goal of this paper was to reconstruct an ethnogenesis of the Tapuios indigenous group from a Behavior Analysis perspective, thus improving our comprehension of this group’s cultural practices by analyzing the processes that selected them. Behavior-analytical concepts would allow us to further understand changes in cultural practices that occurred due to colonization. Finally, we discuss the importance of laws in planning and changing cultures. For Brazilian indigenous groups, consequences such as the right to land and other benefits had an important role in encouraging members of indigenous communities to seek recognition of their condition.

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巴西土著社区的民族起源：行为分析解释

民族起源是一个历史建构的过程，它起源于新的社会类别，换言之，形成与社会其他部分不同的群体。在巴西，1988 年宪法颁布后，不同的群体利用他们的民族起源来获得对其土著状况的承认。其中一个群体是 Tapuios do Carretão，这是巴西中西部地区的一个社区，居住着土著、黑人和白人的后裔，他们讲葡萄牙语，并被巴西政府承认为土著群体。本文的目标是从行为分析的角度重建 Tapuios 土著群体的民族起源，从而通过分析选择他们的过程来提高我们对该群体文化实践的理解。行为分析概念将使我们能够进一步了解由于殖民化而发生的文化实践的变化。最后，我们讨论了法律在规划和改变文化中的重要性。对于巴西土著群体而言，土地权和其他利益等后果在鼓励土著社区成员寻求对其状况的承认方面发挥着重要作用。