Abstract:The article examines land reclamations, actions of territorial recovery engaged in by the Tupinambá of the village of Serra do Padeiro, in southern Bahia, Brazil. It focuses on the return of relatives - i.e. the return of expropriated Indians as part of the reclamation process -, and seeks to examine the construction of the collective political subject that has engendered the reclamations, as it is engendered by them. The text presents a brief history of the process of territorialisation, indicating how the re… Show more
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