{"id":11719,"date":"2011-01-25T03:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11719"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:32:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:32:30","slug":"mestizaje-and-law-making-in-indigenous-identity-formation-in-northeastern-brazil-%e2%80%9cafter-the-conflict-came-the-history%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11719","title":{"rendered":"Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: \u201cAfter the Conflict Came the History\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/aa.2004.106.4.663\" target=\"_blank\">Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: \u201cAfter the Conflict Came the History\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1548-1433\" target=\"_blank\">American Anthropologist<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/aman.2004.106.issue-4\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 106, Issue 4<\/a> (December 2004)<br \/>\npages 663\u2013674<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/aa.2004.106.4.663\" target=\"_blank\">10.1525\/aa.2004.106.4.663<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/socanth.richmond.edu\/faculty\/French_Jan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Hoffman French<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Richmond<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by considering the recent surge of indigenous recognitions in northeastern <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a>. I investigate how race and ethnicity are implicated in the recognition process in Brazil on the basis of an analysis of a successful struggle for indigenous identity and access to land by a group of mixed-race, visibly, African-descended rural workers. I propose that the debate over <em>mestizaje<\/em> (ethnoracial and cultural mixing) in the Spanish-speaking countries of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a> can be reconfigured and clarified by broadening it to include such Brazilian experiences. I argue that the interaction between two processes\u2014law making and indigenous identity formation\u2014is crucial to understanding how the notion of \u201cmixed heritage\u201d is both reinforced and disentangled. As such, this article is an illustration of the role of legal discourse in the constitution of indigenous identities and it introduces northeastern Brazil into the global discussion of law, indigenous rights, and claims to citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1525\/aa.2004.106.4.663\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: \u201cAfter the Conflict Came the History\u201d American Anthropologist Volume 106, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 663\u2013674 DOI: 10.1525\/aa.2004.106.4.663 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,1467,8,3015],"tags":[3473,5303,5302,1193],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-american-anthropologist","tag-jan-french","tag-jan-h-french","tag-jan-hoffman-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}