Indigenous youth in Brazilian Amazonia
Subtitle: changing lived worlds
By: by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781137265340
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Indigenous youth; Rites and ceremonies; Indian youth
Description: How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how current power relations constituted by ethnic recognition, new social contacts, and cooperation with different institutions have shaped the current native youth in Amazonia.