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This article is based on an ethnography among the Wajãpi, an Amerindian group that speaks a Tupi-Guarani language and live in Brazilian Amazon. In this context, the concept of "logic of sensible qualities" (Lévi-Strauss 1970) appears as potent guide to following non-linear connections drew by the Wajãpi and enables to go across different scopes of this people's life: botanical classifications, the processes of building wise persons, body construction, and healing actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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