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Article: The Indians and Brazil.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- December 1, 2004
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GOMES, MERCIO P. (Trans. John W. Moon). The Indians and Brazil. xvi, 300 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Gainesville; Univ. Press of Florida, 2000, $49.95 (cloth)
When I read this English version of Mercio Gomes's book, I had a feeling of misplacement, as if this were a different book from the second Brazilian edition that I had read back in 1991. In 1988, when the book was published, the new Brazilian constitution, released that same year, acknowledged territorial and cultural rights of Indigenous Peoples, who were for the first time under Brazilian law considered capable of defending their own interests. Up until then, Indians, as well as children and the mentally ...