The encompassment of Amerindian societies in Amazonia by the development frontier
(highways, agrarian colonization, ranching, mining, logging, etc.) subjects the sociosymbolic …

Amazonian ecological and cultural landscapes have been cause for debate between
environmental and development agencies that have attempted to re-configure them into …

Abstracts Over the past decade in Brazil, the convergence between international
environmentalism and indigenous cultural survival concerns led to an unprecedented …

The indigenous presence in urban areas of Amazonia has become more visible as Indian
populations have negotiated their own spaces and acted in new contexts previously …

Recent scholarship on the Amazon has challenged depictions of the region that emphasize
its natural exuberance or represent its residents as historically isolated peoples stoically …

In this I article examine some of the processes by which new representational strategies are
being developed by indigenous communities in western Brazil. While language has long …

In the last century, national and international movements in capital and ideas have
contributed to the radical transformation of the Brazilian countryside. In Mato Grosso do Sul …

Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples often have low population density but abundant
natural resources. For those reasons, many actors have historically attempted to occupy …

The indigenous population of the Brazilian Northeast is hardly known outside the country
and stigmatized in Brazil itself. Being one of the earliest regions of colonial penetration the …

In Brazil, in the wake of the 1988 Constitution and subsequent legislation, multiculturalism
has translated more into land policy than into cultural policies in the strict sense. Brazilian …