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Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence

Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence

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How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of "Indians" in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Native and National in Brazil charts this enigmatic relationship from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the consolidation of the dominant national imaginary in the postindependence period and highlighting Native peoples' ongoing work to decolonize it. Engaging issues ranging from sovereignty, citizenship, and national security to the revolutionary potential of art, sustainable development, and the gendering of ethnic differences, Tracy Devine Guzman argues that the tensions between popular renderings of "Indianness" and lived indigenous experience are critical to the unfolding of Brazilian nationalism, on the one hand, and the growth of the Brazilian indigenous movement, on the other.
Devine Guzman suggests that the "indigenous question" now posed by Brazilian indigenous peoples themselves—how to be Native and national at the same time—can help us to rethink national belonging in accordance with the protection of human rights, the promotion of social justice, and the consolidation of democratic governance for indigenous and nonindigenous citizens alike.

ISBN-13: 9781469602097

Media Type: Paperback(1)

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Publication Date: 05-27-2013

Pages: 352

Product Dimensions: 9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies (University of North Carolina Press Paperback)

Tracy Devine Guzman is associate professor of Latin American studies, Portuguese, and Spanish at the University of Miami.

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Captures the complex and contradictory history of representations of indigenous peoples in Brazil and offers a sensitive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of the relationship between indigeneity and the Brazilian state—between national belonging and the lived experience of difference. A welcome addition to the growing literature on indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere.—Jan Hoffman French, University of Richmond

With this brilliant study of the complex negotiation between a renewed sense of indigeneity and a more flexible and inclusive Brazilian national identity, beyond the traditional 'fable of the three races,' Tracy Devine Guzman establishes herself as one of the most original interpreters of Brazil in U.S. academic circles.—Luiz F. Valente, Brown University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xix

Introduction Indians without Indigeneity 1

The Colonialist Renderings of the Present

1 From Acculturation to Interculturality 31

Paradigms for Including through Exclusion

2 On Cannibals and Christians 63

The Violent Displacements of Nation Building

3 Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and Other

Constructions of Modernity 105

4 Unraveling Indianist Hegemony and the Myth of the Brazilian Race 131

5 A Native Critique of Sovereignty 159

The Brazilian Indigenous Movement in the New Millennium

Epilogue Postindigenism 195

Appendix Final Document of the Conference of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Brazil 207

Notes 211

Bibliography 263

Index 301