Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil : State Policy, Frontier Expansion...

by Seth Garfield

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Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil : State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1, Paperback by Garfield, Seth, ISBN 0822326655, ISBN-13 9780822326656, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state&;s indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to reconsider state formation and ethnic identity in twentieth-century Brazil. Garfield explains how state officials, eager to promote capital accumulation, social harmony, and national security on the western front, sought to delimit indigenous reserves and assimilate native peoples. Yet he also shows that state efforts to celebrate Indians as primordial Brazilians and nationalist icons simultaneously served to underscore and redefine ethnic difference. Garfield explores how various other social actors&;elites, missionaries, military officials, intellectuals, international critics, and the Indians themselves&;strove to remold this multifaceted project. Paying particular attention to the Xavante&;s methods of engaging state power after experience with exile, territorial loss, and violence in the &;white&; world, Garfield describes

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 2001
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780822326656
• Condition: Fine

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