Alcida Rita Ramos is professor of anthropology at the University of Brasilia. She has defended indigenous peoples, particularly Yanomami, acting as expert witness to the Brazilian Attorney General's Office and as mediator between the Sanumá and emergency medical teams working to combat epidemic malaria. She is the author of Sanumá Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and two other books.

Setting the Stage 14

The Paradise That Never 60

The Indian against the State 89

Seduced and Abandoned 147

The Specter of Nations within the Nation 168

Development Does Not Rhyme with Indian or Does It? 195

No Mans Land Everybodys Business 222

Legal Weapons of Conquest 243

What Would We Do without Them? 284

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“A gem. The chapters work together beautifully to build up a sophisticated understanding of indigenism in Brazil. . . . Ramos provides vivid detail and anecdote, but also writes in a way that links the ‘indigenous culture wars’ of Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s to battles over citizenship and cultural difference in many parts of the world.”—Jane L. Collins, University of Wisconsin–Madison




“Indigenism is timely, original, and a valuable contribution to the subject of interethnic politics. I can think of no other current book in English that brings together so many facets on this topic in Brazil.”—Catherine V. Howard, Vanderbilt University