Book
Indigenous struggle at the heart of Brazil: state policy, frontier expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988
Duke University Press • Durham, Nc • Published In 2001 • Pages:
By: Garfield, Seth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This historical account of the Xavante peoples’ incorporation into the Brazilian nation focuses on a period in which the state pursued two broad policies with contrasting effects on Xavante culture and society. The first was an ambitious program of industrialization and political centralization under different authoritarian regimes, in which the Xavante lost much of their land to private investors and large-scale state development projects. This was followed by a devolution of state powers to local administrative units by a democratic government under international pressure to address the indigenous problem, an opportunity seized by the Xavante to regain some lands, reclaim their history, and revitalize their culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Research and development
- Public welfare
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Political movements
- Citizenship
- Form and rules of government
- Social relationships and groups
- Ethos
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Inter-community relations
- Ethnic stratification
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Public finance
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Xavante
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern South America
- 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.
- Historian
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Seth Garfield
- Includes bibliographical references (p.277-305) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00061746
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Xavante Indians