Discuss the relationship between modernity and indigeneity in Brazil
Brazil is alleged to be going through a substantial change in the way it treats its Indigenous citizens with increased political participation, economic, cultural and social autonomy and recognition of historical colonial and national injustices against the Indigenous community have opened up new opportunities, but with them, new opportunities for corporate and political interests, too. This essay will address the key points and implications of modernity on the indigeneity movement in relation to Brazil, defining a relationship that isn’t just defined by its economic parameters but increasingly cultural ones too. Outlining that through space and time these narratives repeat …show more content…
Its modernity has been judged by how it’s perceived by the outside world - miscegenation, immigration or the abolition of slavery - progress in the form of economic development has gone hand in hand with the treatment of Brazil’s indigenous community, with the “post-independence desire for defensive dominion over the ‘empty landscape’; thus fashioned Native peoples as one of the many resources to be exploited in the interest of technological development”, in which Tracy Guzmán labels ‘the trinity of Brazilian Modernity, a Republican push to develop and modernize concluding in the goals of “educating strange, underdeveloped, illiterate, and primitive peoples and equipping them with books, weapons and new technologies to safeguard Brazilian territory” (Guzmán, Pp:
Brazil is alleged to be going through a substantial change in the way it treats its Indigenous citizens with increased political participation, economic, cultural and social autonomy and recognition of historical colonial and national injustices against the Indigenous community have opened up new opportunities, but with them, new opportunities for corporate and political interests, too. This essay will address the key points and implications of modernity on the indigeneity movement in relation to Brazil, defining a relationship that isn’t just defined by its economic parameters but increasingly cultural ones too. Outlining that through space and time these narratives repeat …show more content…
Its modernity has been judged by how it’s perceived by the outside world - miscegenation, immigration or the abolition of slavery - progress in the form of economic development has gone hand in hand with the treatment of Brazil’s indigenous community, with the “post-independence desire for defensive dominion over the ‘empty landscape’; thus fashioned Native peoples as one of the many resources to be exploited in the interest of technological development”, in which Tracy Guzmán labels ‘the trinity of Brazilian Modernity, a Republican push to develop and modernize concluding in the goals of “educating strange, underdeveloped, illiterate, and primitive peoples and equipping them with books, weapons and new technologies to safeguard Brazilian territory” (Guzmán, Pp: