Legalizing identities : becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's northeast

Legalizing identities : becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's northeast /

Anthropologists agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. This book shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and colle...

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Main Author: French, Jan Hoffman, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Ethnicity > Brazil > Sergipe.
Ethnology > Brazil > Sergipe.
Group identity > Brazil > Sergipe.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Sergipe.
Shocó Indians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil > Sergipe.
Black people > Brazil > Sergipe > Ethnic identity.
Shocó Indians > Brazil > Sergipe > Ethnic identity.
Black people > Land tenure > Brazil > Sergipe.
Shocó Indians > Land tenure > Brazil > Sergipe.
Ethnicité > Brésil > Sergipe.
Ethnologie > Brésil > Sergipe.
Identité collective > Brésil > Sergipe.
Noirs > Identité ethnique > Brésil > Sergipe.
Noirs > Terres > Brésil > Sergipe.
15.85 history of America.
Black people > Ethnic identity.
Black people > Land tenure.
Black people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Ethnicity.
Ethnology.
Group identity.
Social conditions.
Ethnische Identität.
Ethnische Gruppe
American Indians.
Blacks.
Ownership of land.
Ethnic identity.
citoyenneté > identité culturelle > noir (race) > Brésil > nord-est.
Sergipe (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Sergipe (Brésil) > Conditions sociales.
Brazil > Sergipe.
Brasilien
Brazil.

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