World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

Afro-Brazilian

Benjamin, M. and Mendonça, M., Benedita da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian Woman's Story of Politics and Love, Global Exchange, 1997.

Burdick, J., ‘Brazil's black consciousness movement' and ‘The myth of racial democracy', in NACLA, Report on the Americas: The Black Americas 1492-1992, vol. 25, no. 4, 1992, pp. 23-7 and 40-44.

Davis, D.J. (ed.), Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean, Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources/Jaguar Books, 1995.

Davis, D., Beyond Slavery: The Multifaceted Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

Dzidzienyo, A. and Casal, L., The Position of Blacks in Brazilian and Cuban Society, London, MRG, 1971, 1979.

Hamilton, C., Huntley, L., Alexander, N. and Guimarães, A., Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States, Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner, 1991.

Inter-American Foundation, Economic Development in Latin American Communities of African Descent, Arlington, VA, Inter-American Foundation, 2002.

Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America: http://www.iac-race.org

do Nascimento, A. and Nascimento, E.L., ‘Brazil: dance of deception: a reading of race relations in Brazil', in Beyond Racism: Three Nations at the Crossroads, Atlanta, GA, Southern Education Foundation, 2000, pp. 7-32.

Nobles, M., Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics, Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press, 2000.

Reichmann, R., Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Reid Andrews, G., Afro-Latin America: 1800-2000, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Sansone, L., Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Skidmore, T.E., Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1993.

Telles, E., Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2004.

Vieira, R.M., ‘Brazil', in MRG (ed.), No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today, London, MRG, 1995.

Warren, J.R., Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2001.

Arará

Basso, E.B. (ed.), Carib-speaking Indians, Tucson, Arizona University Press, 1977.

The Tribe that Time Forgot, London, Equilibrium Films, 1994, VHS, 54 min.

Awa

Donkin, M., ‘The Awa have only been known in the west for three decades', BBC World Affairs, 28 August 2002.

Indigenous

Hill, J. (ed.), Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past, Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estadística (IBGE), Censo Demográfico, 2000, URL: http://www.ibge.gov.br

Indigenist Missionary Council (CIMI), ‘Violência contra os Povos Indígenas no Brasil', 2006, URL: http://http://www.cimi.org.br

Inter-American Foundation, Economic Development in Latin American Communities of African Descent, Arlington, VA, Inter-American Foundation, 2002.

Urban, G. and Sherzer, J. (eds), Nation-States and Indians in Latin America, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1994.

Kayapó

Bamberger, J., ‘Environment and cultural classification: a study of the Northern Kayapó', PhD thesis, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, 1967.

Beckham, M. and Turner, T. (dir.), The Kayapo - Out of the Forest, ITV (Disappearing World Series), 51 min., June 1989.

Frota, M. (dir.), Taking Aim. 41 min., 1993.

Lea, V., ‘Mebengokre (Kayapó) onomastics: a facet of houses as total social facts in Central Brazil', Man, vol. 27, no. 1, 1992, pp. 129-53.

Lea, V., ‘The houses of the Mebengokre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil : a new door to their social organization', in J. Carsten and S. Hugh-Jones (eds), About the House: Levi-Strauss and Beyond, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 206-25.

Parker, E., ‘Forest islands and Kayapó resource management in Amazonia: a reappraisal of the apete', American Anthropologist, vol. 94, no. 2, 1992, pp. 406-28.

Rabben, L., Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo and the Onslaught of Civilisation, London, Pluto Press, 1998.

Sting and Dutilleux, J.-P., Jungle Stories: The Fight for the Amazon, London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1989.

Turner, T., ‘Social structure and political organization among the Northern Cayapó', PhD thesis, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, 1966.

Turner, T., ‘Kinship, household and community structure among the Kayapó', in D. Maybury-Lewis (ed.), Dialectical Societies, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1979, pp. 179-214.

Turner, T. ‘Dual opposition, hierarchy and value: moiety structure and symbolic polarity in Central Brazil and elsewhere', in J.C. Galey (ed.), Différences, valeurs, hiérarchies: textes offerts à Louis Dumont, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1984, pp. 335-70.

Turner, T., ‘Social dynamics of video media in an indigenous society: the cultural meaning and the personal politics of videomaking in Kayapó communities', Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 1991, pp. 68-76.

Turner, T. ‘The Mebengokre Kayapó: history, social consciousness and social change from autonomous communities to inter-ethnic system', unpublished manuscript, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1991.

Turner, T., ‘Kayapó on television: an anthropological viewing', Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1992, pp. 107-12.

Turner, T., ‘An indigenous people's struggle for socially equitable and ecologically sustainable production: the Kayapó revolt against extractivism', Journal of Latin American Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 1, 1995, pp. 98-121.

Turner, T., ‘Neo-liberal eco-politics and indigenous peoples: the Kayapó, the "rainforest harvest", and the Body Shop', in G. Dicum (ed.), Local Heritage in the Changing Tropics, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1995. pp. 113-23 (Bulletin Series, 98).

Turner, T. ‘Social body and embodied subject: bodiliness, subjectivity and sociality among the Kayapó', Cultural Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 2, 1995, pp. 143-79.

Werner, D., ‘The making of a Mekranoti chief : the psychological and social determinants of leadership in a native South American society', PhD thesis, University of New York, 1980.

Wilbert, J., Folk Literature of the Gê Indians, vol. 1, Los Angeles, UCLA, Latin American Center Publications, 1978.

Wilbert, J. and Simoneau, K. Folk Literature of the Gê Indians, vol. 2, Los Angeles, UCLA, Latin American Center Publications, 1984.

Makuxi and Wapixana

da Cunha, M.C., ‘Custom is not a thing, it is a path: reflections on the Brazilian Indian case', in A.A. Naim (ed.), Human Rights in Cross-cultural Perspectives : A Quest for Consensus, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. pp. 276-94.

Denevan, W., ‘Native American population in 1492: recent research and a revised hemispheric estimate', in W. Denevan (ed.), The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, pp. xvii-xxix.

Graham, L.R., ‘Lessons in collaboration: the Xavante/WWF Wildlife Management Project in Central Brazil', in R. Weber, J. Butler and P. Larson (eds), Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Organizations: Experiences in Collaboration, Washington, DC, WWF, 2000. pp. 47-71.

Grupioni, L.D.B., ‘Indian organizations and pro-Indian groups in Brazil: views of the quincentenary', in L. Bary, J. Gold, M. Laurila, A. Ramirez et al. (eds), Rediscovering America 1492-1992: National, Cultural and Disciplinary Boundaries Re-examined, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1992, pp. 100-10.

Tukanoan

Brandhuber, G., ‘Why do Tukanoans migrate? Some remarks on conflict on the Upper Rio Negro (Brazil)', Journal de la Société des Américanistes, vol. 85, 1999, pp. 261-80.

Chernela, J.M., ‘Tukanoan fishing', National Geographic Research and Exploration, vol. 10, no. 4, 1994, pp. 440-57.

Goehner, M., West, B. and Merrifield, W.R., ‘Tucano (Tucanoan) kinship terminology', in W.R. Merrifield (ed.), South American Kinship: Eight Kinship Systems from Brazil and Colombia, Dallas, TX, International Museum of Cultures, 1985, pp. 55-70.

Instituto Socioambiental: http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/english/whwhhow/wichpe.shtm

Olschewski, L.E.B., ‘Gender, commensality and community among the Airo-Pai of west Amazônia (Secoya, Western-Tukanoan speaking)', PhD thesis, University of London, 1992.

Urueu-Wau-Wau

Simonian, L.T.L., ‘ "This bloodshed must stop": land claims on the Guarita and Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau reservations, Brazil',  PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 1993.

Yanomami

Albert, B., ‘Sixty-three Yanomami myths', in J. Wilbert and K. Simoneau (eds) Folk Literature of the Yanomami Indians, Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1990.

Milliken, W. and Albert, B., with G. Goodwin Gomez, Yanomami: A Forest People, Kew, Royal Botanical Garden, 2000.

Survival International, Yanomami, London, Survival International, 1990, URL: http://www.survival-international.org

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