Image and instrumentality in a Xavante politics of existential recognition: The public outreach work of Eténhiritipa Pimentel Barbosa

American Ethnologist

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 622-641

  Graham, Laura R ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural commodification; Existential recognition; Identity politics; Native Amazonia (Brazil); Performance; Politics of recognition; Public sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544437176     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.622     Document Type: Article

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