Legalizing identities : becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's northeast / Jan Hoffman French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Jan Hoffman, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Brazil--Sergipe.

Ethnicity.

Ethnology--Brazil--Sergipe.

Ethnology.

Group identity--Brazil--Sergipe.

Group identity.

Black people--Legal status, laws, etc--Brazil--Sergipe.

Black people.

Shocó Indians--Legal status, laws, etc--Brazil--Sergipe.

Shocó Indians.

Black people--Brazil--Sergipe--Ethnic identity.

Shocó Indians--Brazil--Sergipe--Ethnic identity.

Black people--Land tenure--Brazil--Sergipe.

Shocó Indians--Land tenure--Brazil--Sergipe.

Sergipe (Brazil)--Social conditions.

Sergipe (Brazil).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the backlands of northeastern Brazil, Jan Hoffman French demonstrates how these two communities have come to distinguish themselves from

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Globalizing Rights and Legalizing Identities; 1 Situating Identities in the Religious Landscape of the Sertão; 2 We Are Indians Even If Our Faces Aren't Painted; 3 Constructing Boundaries and Creating Legal Facts: A Landowner Dies and a Quilombo Is Born; 4 Family Feuds and Ethnoracial Politics: What's Land Got to Do with It?; 5 Cultural Moves: Authenticity and Legalizing Difference; 6 Buried Alive: A Family Story Becomes Quilombo History; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-236) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908841-7-6

979-88-908841-8-3

1-4696-0577-5

0-8078-8988-1

OCLC:

435526767