Brazil: Indigeneity And Consciousness In Brazil: Analyzing Sousa (1587) And Mendes Jr (1912)

Brazil: Indigeneity And Consciousness In Brazil: Analyzing Sousa (1587) And Mendes Jr (1912) Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, 2011   This article analyzes understandings of indigeneity and legal consciousness in Brazil in the 16th, early 20th and 21st centuries. The article focuses on the often ignored work of João Mendes Junior, written in 1912, about the indigenous peoples of São Paulo and on Gabriel Soares de Sousa’s Tratado descritivo do Brasil em 1587 [A Descriptive Treatise of Brazil in 1587]....

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