| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 247 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index. |
| Summary |
The author 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, the book demonstrates how these two communities have come to distinguish themselves from each other while revising and retelling their histories and present-day stories. It argues that the invocation of laws by these related communities led to the emergence of two different identities: one indigenous (Xocó Indian) and the other quilombo (descendants of a fugitive African slave community). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnicity -- Brazil -- Sergipe.
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Ethnicity. |
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Brazil -- Sergipe. |
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Ethnology -- Brazil -- Sergipe.
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Ethnology. |
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Group identity -- Brazil -- Sergipe.
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Group identity. |
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Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Brazil -- Sergipe.
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Black people -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Black people. |
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Shocó Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Brazil -- Sergipe.
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Shocó Indians. |
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Brazil. |
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Black people -- Brazil -- Sergipe -- Ethnic identity.
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Shocó Indians -- Brazil -- Sergipe -- Ethnic identity.
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Black people -- Land tenure -- Brazil -- Sergipe.
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Black people -- Land tenure. |
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Shocó Indians -- Land tenure -- Brazil -- Sergipe.
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Land tenure. |
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Sergipe (Brazil) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: French, Jan Hoffman, 1953- Legalizing identities. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832929 0807832928 (DLC) 2008050472 (OCoLC)261173682 |
| ISBN |
9780807889886 (electronic book) |
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0807889881 (electronic book) |
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9781469605777 (electronic book) |
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1469605775 (electronic book) |
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9780807832929 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807832928 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807859513 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807859516 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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