Book
The Bakairí Indians of Brazil: politics, ecology, and change
Waveland Press • Prospects Heights, Ill. • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Picchi, Debra.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field Date
- 1979-1981, 1989-1999
- Coverage Date
- 1940-1999
- Coverage Place
- Bakairí reservation, Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Notes
- Debra Picchi
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index
- LCCN
- 00711259
- LCSH
- Bakairi Indians