Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil

by Garfield, Seth

• ISBN13: 9780822326618
• ISBN10: 0822326612
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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 "

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Indians and the Nation-State in Brazil	1	(22)
``The Base of Our National Character'': Indians and the Estado Novo, 1937-1945	23	(22)
``Pacifying'' the Xavante, 1941-1966	45	(21)
``The Father of the Family Provoking Opposition'': State Efforts to Remake the Xavante, 1946-1961	66	(23)
``Noble Gestures of Independence and Pride'': Land Policies in Mato Grosso, 1946-1964	89	(25)
``Brazilindians'': Accommodation with Waradzu, 1950-1964	114	(23)
``Where the Earth Touches the Sky'': New Horizons for Indigenous Policy under Early Military Rule, 1964-1973	137	(25)
The Exiles Return, 1972-1980	162	(25)
The Xavante Project, 1978-1988	187	(25)
Conclusion	212	(9)
Notes	221	(56)
Bibliography	277	(30)
Index	307