"E a FUNAI que sabe"
Subtitle: a Frente de Atração Waimiri-Atroari
By: Stephen Grant Baines.
Series: Coleção Eduardo Galvão
Publisher: SCT/CNPq, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Belém, Pará
Language: por
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Fundação Nacional do Indio.; Waimiri Indians -- Government relations.
Description: "Discourse analysis of domination in the relations between the Fundação Nacional do Indio (FUNAI) and the Waimiri-Atroari indigenous group of northern Brazil. Explores construction of ethnic identity in the contact situation through the FUNAI agents' systematic manipulation, implantation of 'total institutions' of domination, and reinforcement of historical stereotypes of contact. A major advance in situational analyses of interethnic relations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-362).
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade de Brasília.