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Native and National in Brazil Indigeneity after Independence

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ISBN-10: 1469602091

ISBN-13: 9781469602097

Edition: 2013

Authors: Tracy Devine Guzm�n

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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 Brazilcharts this enigmatic relationship from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the consolidation of the dominant national imaginary in the postindependence period and highlighting Native peoples' ongoing work to decolonize it. Engaging issues ranging from sovereignty, citizenship, and national security to the revolutionary potential of art, sustainable development, and the gendering of ethnic differences, Tracy Devine Guzman argues that the tensions between popular renderings of "Indianness" and lived indigenous…    
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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.132

Georgann Eubanks is a writer, teacher, and consultant to nonprofit groups across the country. She is director of the Table Rock Writers Workshop, was a founder of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and is past chair of the North Carolina Humanities Council.Rebecca Sharpless is associate professor of history at Texas Christian University. She is author of Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms.Tracy Devine Guzman is associate professor of Latin American studies, Portuguese, and Spanish at the University of Miami.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction Indians without Indigeneity
The Colonialist Renderings of the Present
From Acculturation to Interculturality
Paradigms for Including through Exclusion
On Cannibals and Christians
The Violent Displacements of Nation Building
Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and Other
Constructions of Modernity
Unraveling Indianist Hegemony and the Myth of the Brazilian Race
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