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Native and National in Brazil : Indigeneity after Independence /

How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of 'Indians' in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Native and National in Brazil charts this enigmatic relationship from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the consolidation of the domi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devine Guzmán, Tracy, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction Indians without Indigeneity
  • The Colonialist Renderings of the Present
  • 1. From Acculturation to Interculturality
  • Paradigms for Including through Exclusion
  • 2. On Cannibals and Christians
  • The Violent Displacements of Nation Building
  • 3. Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and Other
  • Constructions of Modernity
  • 4. Unraveling Indianist Hegemony and the Myth of the Brazilian Race
  • 5. A Native Critique of Sovereignty
  • The Brazilian Indigenous Movement in the New Millennium
  • Epilogue Postindigenism
  • Appendix Final Document of the Conference of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Brazil
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.