Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Brazil

Laura R Graham

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Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Brazil

Laura R Graham

Performing Indigeneity, p.305

UNP - Nebraska

12/01/2014

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Abstract

On December 2, 2009, during a public hearing at the Commission on Human Rights of the Federal Senate in Brasília, Brazil, Tuira Kayapó stepped up to the podium in front of tv cameras, photographers, and international journalists. Her hands richly blackened with body paint, she shook her fist as she publicly harangued officials from the National Indian Foundation (funai). Tuira passionately spoke against government plans to construct the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River. Her words echoed those that she and two other Kayapó women—Kokomu and Paipunu—had blasted at representatives of the Brazilian state’s hydroelectric company

Latin American Studies

Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology

Sociology

Critical Theory

Environmental Studies

Ethnography

Social Sciences

Ecological Zones

Ethnology

Ecology

Biological Sciences

American Studies

Philosophy

Indigenous Peoples

Social criticism

Masculinity

Applied anthropology

Social groups

Communities

Human societies

Population studies

Social philosophy

Ecoregions

Human populations

Brazilian culture

Persons

Ethnic groups

Interactionism

Environmental philosophy

Spectacle

Gender studies

Brazilian studies

Environmentalism

Ecophilosophy

Cultural studies

Behavioral sciences

Applied philosophy

Gender identity

Situationism

Men

Cerrado

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Title: Subtitle: Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Brazil
Creators: Laura R Graham
Contributors: H. Glenn Penny (Editor)
Laura R. Graham (Editor)
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Performing Indigeneity, p.305
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Language: English
Date published: 12/01/2014
Academic Unit: Anthropology; International Programs; History
Record Identifier: 9983997197802771

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