Book
The Bakairí Indians of Brazil: politics, ecology, and change
Waveland Press • Prospects Heights, Ill. • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Picchi, Debra.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Picchi has written this monograph on the Bakairí for an undergraduate-level course. The book begins with a general discussion of fieldwork and ends with a 18-page learning guide. She takes a political ecological approach and focuses on the relationships between the Bakairí, their environment, and the state as represented by the Brazilian National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). She examines the rise in political conscious as they defend their land from homesteaders and ranchers, and travel to international conferences, forming their own political association, Kura-Bakairí. She also examines their adaptation to ranching, rice cultivation, and wage labor, at the same time, recasting their own indigenous roots and identity, and maintaining their important mask dance ceremonies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Environmental quality
- Production and supply
- Visual arts
- Community heads
- Public welfare
- Political movements
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bakairi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1981, 1989-1999
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bakairí reservation, Mato Grosso, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Debra Picchi
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00711259
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bakairi Indians