Indigeneity and consciousness in Brazil
Analyzing Sousa (1587) and Mendes Jr (1912)
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2360854 |
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| Autores | Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes (University of Aberdeen, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2011 |
| Volumen | 31 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 185-209 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Critique of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x11409730 |
| OpenAlex | W2018836567 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 25 |
This article analyzes understandings of indigeneity and legal consciousness in Brazil in the 16th, early 20th and 21st centuries. The article focuses on the often ignored work of João Mendes Junior, written in 1912, about the indigenous peoples of São Paulo and on Gabriel Soares de Sousa's Tratado descritivo do Brasil em 1587 [A Descriptive Treatise of Brazil in 1587]. Mendes' ideas about race, biology and indigeneity diverge considerably from hegemonic Western theories of racial purity and Social Darwinism, but his contribution has never really been acknowledged. This article argues that theories that better fit the organizing model of the free market have become more hegemonic and widespread. For this reason, social scientists should strive to bring into discussion epistemological alternatives to the hegemonic principles of capitalism, which foster exploitation, destitution and the privatization of public space
Capitalism · Consciousness · Epistemology · Hegemony · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Social Darwinism · Sociology · Development, Ethics, and Society · History of Colonial Brazil · Law · Philosophy · Social and Economic Solidarity
Europe and the people without history
World Anthropologies
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Entradas of Bahia of the Sixteenth Century
The Problem of Justice
Imagined communities
Land, Labor, and Difference
The Perception of the Environment
Historical Roots of the "Whitening" of Brazil
The Problem of Justice
Rethinking Race and Culture in Brazil's First Afro-Brazilian Congress of 1934
The Heathen Castes of Sixteenth-Century Portuguese America
Espetáculo da miscigenação
The Mind of Primitive Man
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Perception of the Environment
The `Berdache'/`Two-Spirit
Social Theory in Brazil
Ethnology Brazilian Style
Soul Suckers
From the Invisible Hand to Visible Feet
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
Franz Boas's Physical Anthropology
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