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Sentinels And Entrepreneurs: Advocacy And Development In Brazil, Robin M. Wright
Sentinels And Entrepreneurs: Advocacy And Development In Brazil, Robin M. Wright
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
This article discusses, firstly, the significance of Sandy Davis’ activism for the international indigenous support movement from the 1970s through the late 1980s, and the strategies that were deployed during the global campaign in support of the Yanomami Indian Park. Secondly, it looks critically at some of the models of support for indigenous peoples being implemented in Brazil today, for the purpose of understanding what has changed in the ways indigenous support organizations develop partnerships with indigenous movements. What has changed in the way indigenous and indigenist organizations in Brazil understand their goals and the means for attaining them? What …