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- Title
A Nationalist Environment: Indians, Nature, and the Construction of the Xingu National Park in Brazil.
- Authors
Garfield, Seth
- Abstract
This article deals with the construction of the Xingu National Park in Brazil in 1961. Located in northern Mato Grosso, the Upper Xingu basin remained historically isolated from Brazilian society, in part because the presence of numerous waterfalls and rapids bedeviled navigation beyond the lower range of the river and, in part, due to the presence of warrior nations such as the Xavante and Kayapó located at the periphery of the basin. Not-withstanding their linguistic diversity, many of the groups, most likely from years of close interaction, share similar cultural patterns such as the circular layout of villages, oval huts, planting techniques, and women's use of the uluri, or small triangular bikini to cover their genitalia. The ecology of the Xingu reflects a transitional zone between the vegetation of the cerrado and the Amazonian rainforest. The Xingu Park, whose peoples have been amply studied by ethnographers, ethnomusicologists, filmmakers, photographers, and art historians, has not escaped the scrutiny, nor the debate, of scholars focused on Brazilian state policy towards indigenous peoples. eyebrows. Celebratory accounts of the Xingu Park that stress the valiant efforts of the Brazilian government to save the Indians of Xingu pervade official publications and pronouncements on the park, as well as the memoirs of those high-level officials most actively involved in its creation.
- Subjects
PARQUE Nacional do Xingu (Brazil); BRAZIL; NATIONAL parks &; reserves; INDIGENOUS peoples of Brazil; INDIGENOUS peoples; SOUTH American reservations for indigenous peoples
- Publication
Luso-Brazilian Review, 2004, Vol 41, Issue 1, p139
- ISSN
0024-7413
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lbr.2004.0008