Um grande cerco de paz
Subtitle: poder tutelar, indianidade e formação do Estado no Brasil
By: Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima.
Publisher: Vozes
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Petrópolis
Language: por
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Politics and government.; Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Government relations.; Indians of South America -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century.; Brazil -- Ethnic relations.; Brazil -- Politics and government.
Description: "Revisionist history of Brazilian indigenous policy at the beginning of the Velha República focuses on the creation of the Serviço de Proteção aos Indios (SPI) and its first director, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon. Demythologizes Rondon, and reevaluates SPI's project objectives and place within the apparatus of State power. This study, written by an anthropologist, provides an ethnographic history of the principal elements and processes that constitute a certain modality of State power, i.e., tutelary power, as exercised by the SPI over the indigenous population"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-335).
Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1992.