Legalizing Identities : Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: French, Jan Hoffman, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
citoyennete > identite culturelle > noir (race) > Bresil > nord-est.
Social conditions.
Group identity
Ethnology
Ethnicity
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Black people > Land tenure.
Black people > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Noirs > Terres > Bresil > Sergipe.
Personnes noires > Identite ethnique > Bresil > Sergipe.
Identite collective > Bresil > Sergipe.
Ethnologie > Bresil > Sergipe.
Ethnicite > Bresil > Sergipe.
Shocó Indians > Land tenure > Brazil > Sergipe.
Black people > Land tenure > Brazil > Sergipe.
Shocó Indians > Brazil > Sergipe > Ethnic identity.
Black people > Brazil > Sergipe > Ethnic identity.
Shocó Indians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Sergipe.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Sergipe.
Group identity > Brazil > Sergipe.
Ethnology > Brazil > Sergipe.
Ethnicity > Brazil > Sergipe.
Brazil > Sergipe
Sergipe (Bresil) > Conditions sociales.
Sergipe (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
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 (272 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9781469605777

Ejemplares similares