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
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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Globalizing rights and legalizing identities
  • Situating identities in the religious landscape of the Sertão
  • We are Indians even if our faces aren't painted
  • Constructing boundaries and creating legal facts : a landowner dies and a Quilombo is born
  • Family feuds and ethnoracial politics : what's land got to do with it?
  • Cultural moves : authenticity and legalizing difference
  • Buried alive : a family story becomes Quilombo history
  • Conclusion.

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