Acervo
The Anthropologist as Expert: Brazilian Etnhology between Indianism and Indigenism
Dados da Obra
Autor(es): Pacheco de Oliveira, João
Editora: Duke University Press
Ano de produção: 2005
Idioma Original: Inglês
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Catalogação da Obra
Titulo, Subtitulo e indicação de responsabilidade: The Anthropologist as Expert: Brazilian Etnhology between Indianism and Indigenism. In: L’ESTOILE, Benoit; NEIBURG, Federico; SIGAUD, Lygia. (Org.). Empires, Nations and Natives. Anthropology and State-making. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, v. , p. 223-247.
Notas: v. , p. 223-247. 344 p.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-3617-4
Resumo
Is it the anthropologist’s role to decide whether an individual or a collective can be defined as ‘‘indigenous’’ or, further, to establish the limits of the territory to be officially recognized by the state? As a specialist, does he or she possess the conceptual and methodological tools required for such a definition? In epistemological and ethical terms, should the anthropologist make such a decision, insofar as it implies agreeing to act as a substitute for concrete historical agents (indigenous peoples, class sectors or other social groups, or the state itself) and to assume the role of arbiter between opposed or even antagonistic social interests?