Table of Contents

List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Indians and the Nation-State in Brazil
2. “The Base of Our National Character”: Indians and the Estado Novo, 1937–1945
3. “Pacifying” the Xavante: 1941–1966

4. “The Father of the Family Provoking Opposition”: State Efforts to Remake the Xavante, 1946–1961
5. “Noble Gestures of Independence and Pride”: Land Policies in Mato Grosso, 1946–1964
6. “Brazilindians”: Accommodation with Waradzu, 1950–1964
7. “Where the Earth Touches the Sky”: New Horizons for Indigenous Policy under Early Military Rule, 1964–1972
8. The Exiles Return, 1972–1980
9. The Xavante Project, 1978–1988
10. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Seth Garfield is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

"A pioneering analysis of Brazilian government policy toward the indigenous population from the standpoint of contemporary history. Garfield goes beyond the sensationalism which characterizes so much criticism of government policy to provide a thoughtful, well-balanced, and highly revealing study."-Thomas E. Skidmore, author of Brazil: Five Centuries of Change [*We're also expecting a blurb from Barbara Weinstein. For some reason she was discussed as a "non-reader" blurber in the launch, so we asked her to write one instead of excerpting from her report. (She was one of 6 readers, I now see.) SETH wd. like to see it when it comes in!]