For a more anthropological history: indigenous peoples in contemporary times
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https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v12i1.3170Keywords:
indigenous people, historiography, historical anthropology, indigenous historyAbstract
In this text, I propose a refl ection on indigenous peoples’ history by scanning Brazilian historiography in search for historians' perception concerning the historical role played by indigenous peoples in our history. Thus, I present a brief overview of the treatment given to indigenous history since the moment of professionalization of history as a school subject, bringing as a hypothesis the idea that natives have been made socially invisible and discursively silenced. That is to say that, for a long time, their voices were inaudible and their histories, invisible. I consider that the way in which indigenous history has been treated generated a stigmatizing circle of historiographical marginalization, as well as of a social erasing reinforced by this exclusion. In the search for a proposal of a ‘more anthropological history’, I make use of the readings of João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho, Marshall Sahlins and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, considering new theoretical possibilities for a reading of indigenous societies in contemporary time.Downloads
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2009-08-11
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PORTELA, C. D. A. For a more anthropological history: indigenous peoples in contemporary times. Sociedade e Cultura, Goiânia, v. 12, n. 1, p. 151–160, 2009. DOI: 10.5216/sec.v12i1.3170. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/fcs/article/view/3170. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2024.
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