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"E a FUNAI que sabe"

"E a FUNAI que sabe"

a Frente de Atração Waimiri-Atroari

By Stephen Grant Baines

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Publish Date

1991

Publisher

SCT/CNPq, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Language

por

Pages

362

Description:

"Discourse analysis of domination in the relations between the Fundação Nacional do Indio (FUNAI) and the Waimiri-Atroari indigenous group of northern Brazil. Explores construction of ethnic identity in the contact situation through the FUNAI agents' systematic manipulation, implantation of 'total institutions' of domination, and reinforcement of historical stereotypes of contact. A major advance in situational analyses of interethnic relations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.