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Este estudo exploratório teve como objetivo identificar quais são os talentos (habilidades, saberes ou técnicas) reconhecidos pela comunidade Kayabi e como ela se organiza para a promoção e desenvolvimento desses talentos. Participaram da pesquisa quatro pessoas, todas envolvidas em atividades de ensino e liderança na comunidade Kayabi, sendo três delas nativas. Os dados foram analisados por procedimento construtivo-interpretativo e coletados por meio de análise documental, questionário sociodemográfico e entrevista. As habilidades identificadas pelos Kayabi tinham vínculo com suas tradições ancestrais e eram associadas às áreas artística, linguística e política. As pessoas talentosas eram denominadas por especialistas. Os especialistas desenvolviam suas habilidades pela observação, imitação e orientação de outros especialistas e tinham a responsabilidade de transmitir os seus conhecimentos e técnicas para os mais jovens. A família foi reconhecida como a principal promotora e provedora dos recursos necessários ao desenvolvimento dos talentos. Entre os desafios apontados destacaram-se a escassez de matéria prima ou falta de recursos financeiros e a inexistência de local apropriado para a produção artesanal. Para pesquisas futuras recomenda-se o estudo das interrelações entre os processos individuais e comunitários em que esses talentos emergem e se desenvolvem.

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Land use/cover change practices in the Brazilian Amazon, such as cattle ranching, logging, agriculture, mining, and urbanization are the major contributors to deforestation and have major impacts on ecosystems and environmental processes at local, regional and global scales. A simulation of future landscape in the Kayabi Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon was carried out using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and the IDRISI's Land Change Modeler. The model was able to successfully simulate deforestation expansion in the region and identify the main landscape attributes driving anthropogenic disturbance expansion in the studied area. Distance from roads and distance from existing disturbance were found as the key factors driving deforestation in the Kayabi area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The distribution of glutathione S-transferase (GST) GSTM1 and GSTT1 null phenotype frequencies in two Brazilian Amerindian tribes, the Munduruku tribe from Missão Cururu village (79 individuals) and the Kayabi tribe (41 individuals), was analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. The GST null phenotype frequencies for the Munduruku sample were 0% for GSTM1 and 27% for GSTT1 while for the Kayabi sample the null phenotype frequencies were 27% for GSTM1 and 29% for GSTT1. This is the first report of the absence of the GSTM1 null phenotype in any ethnic group.