Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil

by Alcida Rita Ramos

Book Overview

Indigenous people comprise only 0.2% of Brazil's population, yet occupy a prominent role in the nation's consciousness. In her important and passionate new book, anthropologist Alcida Ramos explains this irony, exploring Indian and non-Indian attitudes about interethnic relations. Ramos contends that imagery about indigenous people reflects an ambivalence Brazil has about itself as a nation, for Indians reveal Brazilians' contradiction between their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299160440
• ISBN13: 9780299160449
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"