Seth Garfield
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3736726 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Seth Garfield |
| PRENOMES | Seth |
| SOBRENOME | Garfield |
| ASSINATURA | GARFIELD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Catholic Racial Democracy
This article analyzes a lesser-known source of the popularization of the notion of racial democracy in interwar Brazil: the Brazilian Catholic Church's anti-Protestant campaign. Although the historiography of comparative race relations in the Americas, influenced heavily by the writings of Gilberto Freyre, has posited religion as a key differentiator between Anglo and Latin America, contemporary Brazilian Catholic officials’ contributions to this…
New Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy
The Book of Yerba Mate
Yerba Mate
Commodity histories have witnessed a boom in recent decades due to their subjects' analytical malleability and crossover popular appeal. The “social life” of a thing encompasses production, exchange, and consumption, use and meaning, value and hierarchy, opening up vast possibilities for historians investigating human behavior over time. Yet the monographs themselves are also commodities, reflecting shifting historiographical trends in scholarly …
Breaking with Binary Narratives of Amazonian Ecopolitics
Illegal logging in the Pirititi Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, 2018. (FELIPE WERNECK / IBAMA / CC BY-SA 2.0)In a September 2020 presidential debate, Democratic candidate Joe Biden dec
Sweet Fuel
Producing less than half the carbon emissions of gasoline, Brazil's sugar-based ethanol (which Brazilians refer to as álcool) has been upheld as an alternative to the fossil fuels that accelerate global warming. Jennifer Eaglin traces the remarkable story of the Brazilian ethanol industry's development from the 1930s to the present, when flex-fuel cars, powered by any combination of gasoline and ethanol, account for over 80 percent of light vehic…
Contact Strategies
Until recent decades, Brazilian scholarship was not particularly kind or faithful in narrating the historical experience of the nation's Indigenous peoples. Neither was public policy for that matter, built on similarly racist, paternalistic, or evolutionist premises. In the nineteenth century, historians such as Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen called for the forced integration or elimination of Indigenous peoples, while public officials and intelle…
People of the Rainforest
In 1961, the Brazilian government ratified the creation of the Xingu National Park, an area of roughly 22,000 square kilometers in the central-western state of Mato Grosso. The expansive federal territory, later renamed the Xingu Indigenous Park, was then home to some one dozen different Indigenous groups. At the time, the park was a historical anomaly. Most Indigenous territories in 1960s Brazil were not officially recognized. Those reserved wer…
Revolution in the Terra do Sol
Sarah Sarzynski's innovative study examines rural mobilization and repression in northeastern Brazil in the years surrounding the 1964 military coup, as well as the subsequent memorialization of political struggle. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the region's rural poor organized for greater access to land and political inclusion, challenging centuries of slavery, latifundia, political violence, and corruption. Brazil's postwar oligarchic …
The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr
Hal Langfur, editor. Native Brazil
In Search of the Amazon
Chapter 5 War in the Amazon
D uring World War II, a multinational, cross-class set of actors battled to remake the Amazon.Although formally allied against the Axis, their common mission was fractured by subjectivities of class, gender, profession, and nationality.A forest coveted by U.S. wartime policymakers for its rubber trees loomed for Brazilian statesmen as a vast hinterland clamoring for national integration.Migrants and tappers contemplating varied patterns of land u…
Chapter 3 Rubber’s “Soldiers”
In Search of the Amazon Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber …
In Search of the Amazon - Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
For their love and kindness, I thank my parents, Jack and Lyla Garfield.While I was growing up, they encouraged me to take paths less traveled, and I consider myself blessed to be their son.My in-laws, Rosa and Henrique Flanzer, have shown utmost carinho during my visits to Rio de Janeiro.I am grateful to my wife, Vivian Flanzer, for her love and support, and an integrity and resolve that continue to inspire me.I dedicate this book to my two daug…
The Environment of Wartime Migration
Subsequent to the Japanese invasion of the Malayan peninsula in February 1942 which severed access to traditional latex markets, the United States subsidized mass labor transfers from the Brazilian Northeast to the Amazon forest to increase rubber output. The regime of Getulio Vargas, which favored Northeastern migration as a geopolitical measure to occupy the frontier and as a safety valve for the drought-stricken backlands, promised protective …
A Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano em tempo de guerra
Este ensaio delineia a emergência da Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Embora a importância geopolítica de diversificação dos mercados fornecedores de borracha e o desenvolvimento da borracha sintética tenham sido discutidos nos Estados Unidos antes do ataque a Pearl Harbor, a subsequente interdição japonesa aos mercados tradicionais do sudeste asiático levou burocratas e cientistas a se apressarem na bu…
Tapping Masculinity
Between 1942 and 1945, more than 32,000 male migrant workers were transported to the Brazilian Amazon from the country’s Northeast, in the largest state-sponsored relocation of free labor in Brazilian history. These men were charged with supplying the United States with latex tapped from wild rubber trees, as part of a wartime campaign underwritten by the U.S. government.1 This essay investigates how notions of gender shaped the formulation of th…
A Nationalist Environment
Mato Grosso e que engloba povos indígenas das quatro principais famílias lingüísticas indígenas.Ao desconstruir as imagens culturais dos indígenas, do meio ambiente, e da identidade nacional utilizada pelos proponentes do parque, o ensaio examina como o Parque Nacional do Xingu serviu não só de refúgio para "espécies em extinção" mas também como um mito de origem e uma ensaio de nation-building.De fato, o passado "primitivo" interessava não só ao…
Race, Place, and Medicine
Book Review| April 01 2002 Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine; The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Translated by Leland Guyer. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. $35.00 cloth.)By Julyan G. Peard. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 1999.$54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.) Seth Garfield Seth Garfield Search for othe…
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
Beholding the Miracle
In 1978, the Brazilian military government launched a “community development project” for the Xavante Indians of Mato Grosso (“ Projeto Xavante ”) to promote mechanized rice production and livestock rearing, and to institute educational and health programs. As the project sought to foster indigenous self-sufficiency, the government Indian bureau, Fundaçaão Nacional do Índio (FUNAI) would deploy a team of technicians, agronomists, educators, and h…
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state's indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to recon…
A Nationalist Environment
Mato Grosso e que engloba povos indígenas das quatro principais famílias lingüísticas indígenas.Ao desconstruir as imagens culturais dos indígenas, do meio ambiente, e da identidade nacional utilizada pelos proponentes do parque, o ensaio examina como o Parque Nacional do Xingu serviu não só de refúgio para "espécies em extinção" mas também como um mito de origem e uma ensaio de nation-building.De fato, o passado "primitivo" interessava não só ao…
As raízes de uma planta que hoje é o Brasil
Este artigo examina a construção do Índio por funcionários e intelectuais durante o Estado Novo (1937-1945) e os esforços de povos indígenas para empregar essas imagens. Funcionários do Estado - preocupados com unificação nacional, defesa territorial e configuração racial - sustentaram o Índio como um ícone que trouxe contribuições inestimáveis à formação histórica e cultural brasileira. O proto-patriota, entretanto, só pôde ser completamente red…
In Search of the Amazon - Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
For their love and kindness, I thank my parents, Jack and Lyla Garfield.While I was growing up, they encouraged me to take paths less traveled, and I consider myself blessed to be their son.My in-laws, Rosa and Henrique Flanzer, have shown utmost carinho during my visits to Rio de Janeiro.I am grateful to my wife, Vivian Flanzer, for her love and support, and an integrity and resolve that continue to inspire me.I dedicate this book to my two daug…
A Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano em tempo de guerra
Este ensaio delineia a emergência da Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Embora a importância geopolítica de diversificação dos mercados fornecedores de borracha e o desenvolvimento da borracha sintética tenham sido discutidos nos Estados Unidos antes do ataque a Pearl Harbor, a subsequente interdição japonesa aos mercados tradicionais do sudeste asiático levou burocratas e cientistas a se apressarem na bu…
The Roots of a Plant that Today is Brazil
This article looks at the construction of the Indian by government officials and intellectuals during the Estado Novo (1937–45), and the efforts of indigenous peoples to engage these images. State officials – concerned with national consolidation, territorial defense, and racial pedigree – upheld the Indian as an icon who had made invaluable contributions to Brazilian historical and cultural formation. The proto-patriot, however, could only be fu…
Tapping Masculinity
Between 1942 and 1945, more than 32,000 male migrant workers were transported to the Brazilian Amazon from the country’s Northeast, in the largest state-sponsored relocation of free labor in Brazilian history. These men were charged with supplying the United States with latex tapped from wild rubber trees, as part of a wartime campaign underwritten by the U.S. government.1 This essay investigates how notions of gender shaped the formulation of th…
Beholding the Miracle
In 1978, the Brazilian military government launched a “community development project” for the Xavante Indians of Mato Grosso (“ Projeto Xavante ”) to promote mechanized rice production and livestock rearing, and to institute educational and health programs. As the project sought to foster indigenous self-sufficiency, the government Indian bureau, Fundaçaão Nacional do Índio (FUNAI) would deploy a team of technicians, agronomists, educators, and h…
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state's indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to recon…
Where the Earth Touches the Sky
In 1951 landowners and their thugs launched an attack on the Xavante Indians in the village of Parabubu in northeastern Mato Grosso. Parabubu was one of several Xavante villages in the region between the Couto Magalhães and Culuene rivers not yet peacefully contacted, or “pacified,” by the Brazilian government. A seminomadic and warrior nation of the Gê lingustic group, the Xavante had shunned contact with outsiders for a century, killing those w…
Raça, ciéncia e sociedade
Marcos Chor Maio and Ricardo Ventura Santos have compiled an excellent volume which examines the question of race and racial relations in Brazil. The anthology, which brings together the writings of mainly Brazilian historians and social scientists, provides an interdisciplinary and diachronic approach to the issues of race, ethnicity, and nation-building. Rasca, Ciéncia e Sociedade grew out of a conference held in Rio de Janeiro in May, 1995, an…
The Roots of a Plant that Today is Brazil
This article looks at the construction of the Indian by government officials and intellectuals during the Estado Novo (1937–45), and the efforts of indigenous peoples to engage these images. State officials – concerned with national consolidation, territorial defense, and racial pedigree – upheld the Indian as an icon who had made invaluable contributions to Brazilian historical and cultural formation. The proto-patriot, however, could only be fu…
As raízes de uma planta que hoje é o Brasil
Este artigo examina a construção do Índio por funcionários e intelectuais durante o Estado Novo (1937-1945) e os esforços de povos indígenas para empregar essas imagens. Funcionários do Estado - preocupados com unificação nacional, defesa territorial e configuração racial - sustentaram o Índio como um ícone que trouxe contribuições inestimáveis à formação histórica e cultural brasileira. O proto-patriota, entretanto, só pôde ser completamente red…
Where the Earth Touches the Sky
In 1951 landowners and their thugs launched an attack on the Xavante Indians in the village of Parabubu in northeastern Mato Grosso. Parabubu was one of several Xavante villages in the region between the Couto Magalhães and Culuene rivers not yet peacefully contacted, or “pacified,” by the Brazilian government. A seminomadic and warrior nation of the Gê lingustic group, the Xavante had shunned contact with outsiders for a century, killing those w…
Recent Works on Amazonian Indians
Review Article| October 01 2000 Recent Works on Amazonian Indians Seth Garfield Seth Garfield Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 755–766. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-755 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Seth Garfield; Recent Works on Amazonian Indians. Ethnohistory 1 October 2000; 47 (3-4): 755–766. doi: https://doi.o…
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
Beholding the Miracle
In 1978, the Brazilian military government launched a “community development project” for the Xavante Indians of Mato Grosso (“ Projeto Xavante ”) to promote mechanized rice production and livestock rearing, and to institute educational and health programs. As the project sought to foster indigenous self-sufficiency, the government Indian bureau, Fundaçaão Nacional do Índio (FUNAI) would deploy a team of technicians, agronomists, educators, and h…
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state's indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to recon…
Race, Place, and Medicine
Book Review| April 01 2002 Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine; The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Translated by Leland Guyer. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. $35.00 cloth.)By Julyan G. Peard. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 1999.$54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.) Seth Garfield Seth Garfield Search for othe…
A Nationalist Environment
Mato Grosso e que engloba povos indígenas das quatro principais famílias lingüísticas indígenas.Ao desconstruir as imagens culturais dos indígenas, do meio ambiente, e da identidade nacional utilizada pelos proponentes do parque, o ensaio examina como o Parque Nacional do Xingu serviu não só de refúgio para "espécies em extinção" mas também como um mito de origem e uma ensaio de nation-building.De fato, o passado "primitivo" interessava não só ao…
Tapping Masculinity
Between 1942 and 1945, more than 32,000 male migrant workers were transported to the Brazilian Amazon from the country’s Northeast, in the largest state-sponsored relocation of free labor in Brazilian history. These men were charged with supplying the United States with latex tapped from wild rubber trees, as part of a wartime campaign underwritten by the U.S. government.1 This essay investigates how notions of gender shaped the formulation of th…
A Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano em tempo de guerra
Este ensaio delineia a emergência da Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Embora a importância geopolítica de diversificação dos mercados fornecedores de borracha e o desenvolvimento da borracha sintética tenham sido discutidos nos Estados Unidos antes do ataque a Pearl Harbor, a subsequente interdição japonesa aos mercados tradicionais do sudeste asiático levou burocratas e cientistas a se apressarem na bu…
The Environment of Wartime Migration
Subsequent to the Japanese invasion of the Malayan peninsula in February 1942 which severed access to traditional latex markets, the United States subsidized mass labor transfers from the Brazilian Northeast to the Amazon forest to increase rubber output. The regime of Getulio Vargas, which favored Northeastern migration as a geopolitical measure to occupy the frontier and as a safety valve for the drought-stricken backlands, promised protective …
In Search of the Amazon
Chapter 5 War in the Amazon
D uring World War II, a multinational, cross-class set of actors battled to remake the Amazon.Although formally allied against the Axis, their common mission was fractured by subjectivities of class, gender, profession, and nationality.A forest coveted by U.S. wartime policymakers for its rubber trees loomed for Brazilian statesmen as a vast hinterland clamoring for national integration.Migrants and tappers contemplating varied patterns of land u…
Chapter 3 Rubber’s “Soldiers”
In Search of the Amazon Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber …
In Search of the Amazon - Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
For their love and kindness, I thank my parents, Jack and Lyla Garfield.While I was growing up, they encouraged me to take paths less traveled, and I consider myself blessed to be their son.My in-laws, Rosa and Henrique Flanzer, have shown utmost carinho during my visits to Rio de Janeiro.I am grateful to my wife, Vivian Flanzer, for her love and support, and an integrity and resolve that continue to inspire me.I dedicate this book to my two daug…
Hal Langfur, editor. Native Brazil
The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr
Revolution in the Terra do Sol
Sarah Sarzynski's innovative study examines rural mobilization and repression in northeastern Brazil in the years surrounding the 1964 military coup, as well as the subsequent memorialization of political struggle. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the region's rural poor organized for greater access to land and political inclusion, challenging centuries of slavery, latifundia, political violence, and corruption. Brazil's postwar oligarchic …
People of the Rainforest
In 1961, the Brazilian government ratified the creation of the Xingu National Park, an area of roughly 22,000 square kilometers in the central-western state of Mato Grosso. The expansive federal territory, later renamed the Xingu Indigenous Park, was then home to some one dozen different Indigenous groups. At the time, the park was a historical anomaly. Most Indigenous territories in 1960s Brazil were not officially recognized. Those reserved wer…
Contact Strategies
Until recent decades, Brazilian scholarship was not particularly kind or faithful in narrating the historical experience of the nation's Indigenous peoples. Neither was public policy for that matter, built on similarly racist, paternalistic, or evolutionist premises. In the nineteenth century, historians such as Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen called for the forced integration or elimination of Indigenous peoples, while public officials and intelle…
Breaking with Binary Narratives of Amazonian Ecopolitics
Illegal logging in the Pirititi Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, 2018. (FELIPE WERNECK / IBAMA / CC BY-SA 2.0)In a September 2020 presidential debate, Democratic candidate Joe Biden dec
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