Seth Garfield

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil

State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This fine historical study illuminates a host of crucial questions about Brazilian state formation, racial discourses, and national identity. Its pathbreaking reconstruction of the complicated interaction between the Xavante communities and the Brazilian state provides us with vivid examples of the way in which the policies of a modernizing state serve to reduce the complexities of indigenous culture but at the same time create possibilities for entirely new strategies of resistance and negotiation."--Barbara Weinstein, author of "For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paolo, 1920-1964 "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326656
• ISBN-10: 0822326655
• Artikelnr.: 21383374

Autorenporträt

Seth Garfield is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Indians and the Nation-State in Brazil
2. “The Base of Our National Character”: Indians and the Estado Novo,
1937–1945
3. “Pacifying” the Xavante: 1941–1966
> 4. “The Father of the Family Provoking Opposition”: State Efforts to
Remake the Xavante, 1946–1961
5. “Noble Gestures of Independence and Pride”: Land Policies in Mato
Grosso, 1946–1964
6. “Brazilindians”: Accommodation with Waradzu, 1950–1964
7. “Where the Earth Touches the Sky”: New Horizons for Indigenous Policy
under Early Military Rule, 1964–1972
8. The Exiles Return, 1972–1980
9. The Xavante Project, 1978–1988
10. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index