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    When to inhabit corresponds to the human right to food Quando habitar corresponde ao direito humano à alimentação
    Reichardt F.V.; De Paula Eduardo Garavello M.E. (2017)
    © 2017 Centro Universitario de Brasilia. All rights reserved.In this article we discuss the human right to food considered in cultural terms linked to a "territory", more specifically, to the Xavante Indigenous Land "Pimentel Barbosa", located in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. In the first part of the article, we try to demonstrate that important cultural, symbolic and cosmological processes are linked to the Xavante conception of food, which is linked with the ways of belonging to a "territory". The food insecurity context of the Xavante people presented in this second stage of the article, points to something more than fragility in the conditions of their survival. It implies, above all, in a denied political condition, since it is withdrawn from the Xavante people their own world. This because the Xavante concept of "Ró" [the tropical savanna ecoregion, their territoriality and their concept of life] is the condition of their existence as "A'uwe" [or Xavante people]. We are arguing that it is a broader symbolic issue that leads to the destruction of the social senses of this people. Thus, food insecurity, malnutrition and high infant mortality rates are symptoms of a more basal problem that shows the unequal use of Brazilian "territory". For this reason, the other side of the coin of the present Xavante people context of "food subalternity" is the suppression of the minimum conditions of its social expression in Ró. In the third part of this article, we discuss the possibilities of human rights being put at the service of an emancipatory policy towards the Xavante and about the possi-bilities of a multicultural conception of human rights. We emphasize that, at least in the Brazilian context, dialogue seems to be a desperately weak notion of Xavante culture. The final conclusions lead to the proposal that the Xavante indigenous lands should once again have their original configuration, uniting the indigenous lands through the tropical savanna ecoregion, restoring, at least in part, indigenous territoriality.