Indigenous youth in Brazilian Amazonia

Description:

How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how current power relations constituted by ethnic recognition, new social contacts, and cooperation with different institutions have shaped the current native youth in Amazonia.

subjects: Social conditions,  Social life and customs,  Indigenous youth,  Rites and ceremonies,  Indian youth,  Brazil, social conditions,  Brazil, social life and customs,  Indigenous peoples,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Anthropology,  Cultural,  Discrimination & Race Relations,  Ethnic Studies,  General,  Minority Studies,  Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography,  Age groups: adolescents,  Society,  Culture,  Study and teaching,  Ethnology,  Families,  Social groups,  Social sciences,  Youth

Places: Brazil,  Amazonas