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| ISBN: | 9780807889886
0807889881
9781469605777
1469605775
9780807832929
0807832928
9780807859513
0807859516
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The author shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the backlands of northeastern Brazil, the book demonstrates how these two communities have come to distinguish themselves from each other while revising and retelling their histories and present-day stories. It argues that the invocation of laws by these related communities led to the emergence of two different identities: one indigenous (Xocó Indian) and the other quilombo (descendants of a fugitive African slave community).
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| Other form: | Print version: French, Jan Hoffman, 1953- Legalizing identities. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832929 0807832928
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| Standard no.: | 9781469605777
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