Legalizing identities : becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's northeast /

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The author shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the backlands of northeastern Brazil, the boo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: French, Jan Hoffman, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Ethnicity > Brazil > Sergipe.
Ethnology > Brazil > Sergipe.
Group identity > Brazil > Sergipe.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Sergipe.
Shocó Indians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Sergipe.
Black people > Brazil > Sergipe > Ethnic identity.
Shocó Indians > Brazil > Sergipe > Ethnic identity.
Black people > Land tenure > Brazil > Sergipe.
Shocó Indians > Land tenure > Brazil > Sergipe.
Black people > Race identity > Brazil > Sergipe.
Ethnicité > Brésil > Sergipe.
Ethnologie > Brésil > Sergipe.
Identité collective > Brésil > Sergipe.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Brésil > Sergipe.
Personnes noires > Terres > Brésil > Sergipe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Black people > Ethnic identity
Black people > Land tenure
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Ethnicity
Ethnology
Group identity
Social conditions
citoyenneté > identité culturelle > noir (race) > Brésil > nord-est.
Sergipe (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Sergipe (Brésil) > Conditions sociales.
Brazil > Sergipe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The author shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the backlands of northeastern Brazil, the book demonstrates how these two communities have come to distinguish themselves from each other while revising and retelling their histories and present-day stories. It argues that the invocation of laws by these related communities led to the emergence of two different identities: one indigenous (Xocó Indian) and the other quilombo (descendants of a fugitive African slave community).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxiv, 247 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.
ISBN:9780807889886
0807889881
9781469605777
1469605775

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