Brazil: Indigenous Peoples & Movements
(see also Brazil, Brazil: Military Regime, Brazil since 1985, Brazil: Lula, Workers Party & MST, Brazil: Amazonia)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Center for World Indigenous Studies.
Conselho Indigenista Missionário (CIMI).
Cultural Survival. Promotes rights, voices & visions of indigenous peoples everywhere.
International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) (Copenhagen). Has monitored & reported regularly on struggle for indigenous rights in Brazil & elsewhere since 1968.
In the Library: Articles
Anon. "Kaingang march on Brasilia for their rights to land," IWGIA Newsletter 40 (12/84):6-8.
__________. "Constitutional Assembly reviews indigenous rights," IWGIA Newsletter 51/52 (10-12/87):22-25.
Brooks, Edwin. "Twilight of the Brazilian tribes," Geographical Magazine 45,4 (1/73):304-10.
CIMI. "Doctrine of national security threatens Brazil's Indians," Cultural Survival Quarterly 11,2 (1987):63-65.
Coelho dos Santos, Sílvio. "Constitución y violación de los derechos de los pueblos indíogenas en el Brasil," en Grünberg (coord.) Articulación de la diversidad (Quito, 1995).
Davis, Shelton. "Custer is alive & he lives in Brazil," Indian Historian 6,1 (1973):11-18. Charges genocide.
Garfield, Seth. "The greatest administrative scandal," in Levine & Crocitti (eds.) Brazil Reader (Durham NC, 1999), pp. 268-73. Corruption in the Indian Protection Service (SPI) in 1963.
__________. "Mario Juruna: Brazil's first indigenous congressman," in P. Beattie (ed.) The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2004), pp. 287-304.
Kaxinawá, Sia. "The history of the Huni Kui people," in Levine & Crocitti (eds.) Brazil Reader (Durham, 1999), pp. 432-35.
Krenak, Ailton; Romualdo Paes de Andrade & Manuela Carneiro da Cunha. "Mining companies & indigenous lands in Brazil," Cultural Survival Quarterly 10,2 (1986):46-47.
Martins, Leda Leitão. "Taming malaria: a new health model for the indigenous populations in Brazil," Grassroots Development 11,1 (1999):11-16.
Maybury-Lewis, David. "Living in Leviathan: ethnic groups & the state," in his (ed.) The Prospects for Plural Societies (Washington, 1984), pp. 220-31.
__________. "Una crónica amarga: el Brasil y los indios," in Klor de Alva y otros (eds.) La palabra y obra en el Nuevo Mundo, vol. II: Encuentros interétnicos, interpretaciones contemporáneas (Madrid, 1995), pp. 97-120.
Melatti, Julio C. "Situação e problemática da antropologia no Brasil," América Indígena 40,2 (1980):225-79.
Oliveira, Ismarth Araujo. "Política indigenista brasileira," América Indígena 37,1 (1977):41-63.
Oliveira, João Pacheco de. "Brazil: land of the Indian," IWGIA Newsletter 38 (7/84):14-22.
__________. "Las estadísticas sobre tierras indígenas en Brasil: una evaluación crítica," en Grünberg )coord.) Articulación de la diversidad (Quito, 1995), pp. 175-96.
Oliveira, Roberto Cardoso de. "The role of Indian posts in the process of assimilation," América Indígena 20,2 (1960)
__________. "Estudo de áreas de fricção interétnica no Brasil," América Latina 5,3 (1962):85-90.
__________. "Mining & Indianism in Brazil," Cultural Survival Quarterly 10,1 (1986):27-28.
Ribeiro, Darcy. "The social integration of indigenous populations in Brazil, parts I & II," International Labour Review 85 (1962):325-46 & 459-77.
__________ & Mércio Gomes. "Etnicidad y civilización," in Grünberg (coord.) Articulación de la diversidad (Quito, 1995).
Serra, Ordep T. "The Pataxo of Bahia: persecution & discrimination continue," Cultural Survival Quarterly 13,1 (1989):16-17.
Spyer, Juliano. "Urban Indians," in Levine & Crocitti (eds.) Brazil Reader (Durham NC, 1999), popo. 436-40.
Urban, Greg. "Interpretations of inter-cultural contact: the Shokleng & Brazilian national society, 1914-1916," Ethnohistory 32,3 (1985):224-44.
Wagley, Charles. "Indian heritage of Brazil," in Smith & Marchant (eds.) Brazil: Portrait of Half a Continent (NY, 1951).
__________ & Marvin Harris. "The Indians in Brazil," in Wagley & Harris, Minorities in the New World (NY, 1958), pp. 20-47.
Williams, S. "Land rights & the manipulation of identity: official Indian policy in Brazil," Journal of Latin American Studies 15 (5/83):137-61.
Wright, Robin M. "Anthropological presuppositions of indigenous advocacy," Annual Review of Anthropology 17 (1988):365-90.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Brookshaw, David. Paradise Betrayed: Brazilian Literature of the Indian (Amsterdam, 1989).
Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de; Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (orgs.) Amazonia: etnologia e história indígena (Sao Paulo, 1993).
Chiappino, Jean. The Brazilian Indigenous Problem & Policy: The Aripuana Park (IWGIA Doc. 19; Copenhagen, 1975).
Coutinho, Edilberto. Rondon, o civilizador da última fronteira (Rio de Janeiro, 1975).
Cunha, Manuela Carneiro da. Antropologia do Brasil: história, etnicidade (São Paulo: Editora Brasiliense, 1986).
__________. História dos índios do Brasil (São Paulo, 1992).
Dallari, Dalmo de Abreu; Manuela Carneiro da Cunha e Lux Vidal (eds.) A questão da terra indígena (São Paulo: Global, 1981).
Davis, Shelton H. Victims of the Miracle: Development & the Indians of Brazil (Cambridge MA, 1977).
Gomes, Mércio P. The Indians & Brazil (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 2000). Evolution of Indian policy in 19th & 20th c., & native resurgence since 1950s.
Hanbury-Tenison, Robin. A Question of Survival for the Indians of Brazil (London, 1973).
Hopper, Janice (ed.) Indians of Brazil in the 20th C. (Washington: Institute of Cross-Cultural Research, 1967).
Indígena. Supysáua: A Documentary Report on the Conditions of Indian Peoples in Brazil (Berkeley, 1979).
Junqueira, Carmen. The Brazilian Indigenous Problem & Policy: The Example of the Xintgú National Park (IWGIA Doc. 13; Copenhagen, 1973).
Kräutler, Erwin. Indians & Ecology in Brazil (London: CIIR, 1990).
Maybury-Lewis, David. The Savage & the Innocent (Cleveland OH, 1965). Xavante & Xerente, who then seemed unlikely to survive!
Melatti, Julio Cezar. Indios e criadores: a situação dos Krahó na area pastoril do Tocantins (Rio de Janeiro, 1967).
__________. Indios del Brasil [1970] (México: SepSetentas, 1973).
__________. O messianismo Krahó (São Paulo, 1972).
Oliveira, Roberto Cardoso de. O índio e o mundo dos brancos (SNao Paulo: Difusão Europeia do Livro, 1964).
__________. Urbanização e tribalismo: a integração dos índios Terena numa sociedade de classes (Rio de Janeiro, 1968).
__________. A sociologia do Brasil indígena (Rio de Janeiro, 1972).
__________. Do indio ao bugre: o processo de assimilação dos índios Terena (Rio de Janeiro, 1976).
Ramos, Alcida Rita. Sanumá Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis (Madison: U. Wiscons, 1995).
__________. Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil (Madison: U. Wisconsin, 1998). Basic reading for contemporary Indian movement.
Ribeiro, Darcy. O indigenista Rondon (Rio de Janeiro, 1958).
__________. A política indigenista brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, 1962).
Seeger, Anthony. Nature & Society in Central Brazil: Suya Indians of Mato Grosso (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981).
Sierra, María Teresa. La lucha por los derechos indígenas en el Brasil actual (México, 1993).
Vários autores. Indios no Estado de São Paulo: resistencia e transfiguração (São Paulo, 1984).
Viveiros, Esther de. Rondon conta sua vida (Rio de Janeiro, 1957?).
Wagley, Charles. The Tenetehara Indians of Brazil: A Culture in Transition (NY, 1949).
Watson, James B. Cayuá Culture Change: A Study in Acculturation & Methodology (Menasha WI: American Anthropological Association, 1952).
Zárate Vidal, Margarita y Florence Rosemberg Seifer. Los indios de Brasil: su proceso de lucha (México, 1989).
In the Library: Fiction
Callado, António. Quarup: romance (Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1971).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
Callado, António. Frankel: A Play in Three Acts (Rio de Janeiro, 1955).
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Contact: The Yanomami Indians" [1991], dir. Geoffrey O'Connor, 28m. From Filmakers' Library. Experience with goldminers since 1987.
"The Day When the Moon Menstruated" [2004], dir. Takumã & Maricá Kuikuro, 28m. From Latin American Video Archives.
"Iracema" [1975], dir. Jorge Bodansky, 90m. From Cinema Guild. 14-year old Indian girl working as prostitute hooks up with trucker to return home on trans-Amazon highway.
"Jungle Secrets (Segredos da mata)" [1998], dir. Dominique Gallois & Vincent Careli, 13m. From Latin American Video Archives. Waiãpi storytelling.
"Meeting Ancestors: The Zo'e (A arca dos Zo'e)" [1993], dir. Vincent Carelli & Domenique Gallois, 22m. From Latin American Video Archives.
"The Rainy Season" [1999], dir. Isaac Valdete, 38m. From Latin American Video Archives. Ashaninka.
"Shomõtsi" [2001], dir. Valdete Pinhanta Ashenika, 42m. From Latin American Video Archives. Portrait of an Ashaninka elder & his daily life.
"Taking Aim" [1993], dir. Monica Frota, 41m. From Cinema Guild. Witty & provocative exploration of power & representation issues in the appropriation of video technology as political & cultural weapon by the Kayapó of the Xingú valley.