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1996 South America, Savanna, In: Levinson, David e Ember, Melvin (org). Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, vol 4.. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1236-1240.

Summary of studies carried out among savanna dwelling Indians in South America -- Patagonia, the Pampas, the Gran Chaco, and especially the Central Brazilian Cerrado. Efforts of major research teams to characterize and explain social organization.

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1985 Psycho-Social Stress and the Construction of a Flood-Control Dam in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Human Organization 44(2): 161-167.

1985 Duas Respostas Simplistas sobre os Direitos dos Indios à Terra.IN: S.C.dos Santos, D.Werner, N.S. Bloemer and A.Nacke (Org.). Sociedades Indígenas e o Direito: uma Questão de direitos humanos. Editora da UFSC e CNPq: Florianópolis. p.38-51.

1984 Paid Sex Specialists among the Mekranoti. Journal of Anthropological Research 40(4): 394-405.

1984 Child Care and Influence among the Mekranoti of Central Brazil. Sex Roles 10(5-6): 395-404.

1984 Terra de Indio. Ciencia Hoje 3(14): 26-32.

1984 Mulheres Solteiras entre os Mekranoti-Kayapo, Anuário Antropológico 82.:69-81.

1983 Fertility and Pacification among the Mekranoti of Central Brazil. Human Ecology 11(2): 227-245

1983 Why do the Mekranoti Trek. IN R Hames and W Vickers (Orgs.), Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. New York: Academic Press pp.225-238.

1983 Mudanças Demográficas no Posto Indígena Ibirama. Anuais do Museu de Antropologia 15(16), UFSC.: 24-33.

1982 Variation in Swidden Practices in Four Central Brazilian Indian Societies. Human Ecology 10(2): 203-217 (co-autor).

1982 Leadership Inheritance and Acculturation among the Mekranoti of Central Brazil Human Organization 41(4): 342-345.

1982 Chiefs and Presidents: A Comparison of Leadership Traits in theUnited States and among the Mekranoti-Kayapo of Central Brazil. Ethos 10(2): 136-148.

1981 Are Some People more Equal than Others? Status Inequality among the Mekranoti of Central Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Research 37(4): 360-373.

1981 Gerontocracy among the Mekranoti of Central Brazil. Anthropological Quarterly 54(1): 15-27.

1979 Subsistence Productivity and Hunting Effort in Native South America Human Ecology 7(4): 303-315 (autor prinicpal).

1979 Ecology and Acculturation among Native Peoples of Central Brazil Science 206(4422): 1043-1050 (co-autor).

1978 Trekking in the Amazon Forest. Natural History 87(9): 42-55.