The Indians and Brazil.(Book Review)

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: de Oliveira, Adolfo | Copyright information

GOMES, MERCIO P. (Trans. John W. Moon). The Indians and Brazil. xvi, 300 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Gainesville; Univ. Press of Florida, 2000, $49.95 (cloth)

When I read this English version of Mercio Gomes's book, I had a feeling of misplacement, as if this were a different book from the second Brazilian edition that I had read back in 1991. In 1988, when the book was published, the new Brazilian constitution, released that same year, acknowledged territorial and cult...

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