Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century
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Book
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ISBN 10
1405000953
ISBN 13
9781405000956
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Publication Year
2003
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Pagina's
855
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Beschrijving
"Die if you must, but never kill" was the injunction of the enlightened leader of the Brazilian movement to "civilise" the Indian population in the first part of the 20th century. Years of exploration and exploitation of the Amazon's resources had revealed that those tribes living in the interior would need somehow to be brought into the modern world. Hemming describes the slow process of exploration, contact, their customs and practices, and disturbingly, their almost immediate decline on meeting modern man. He describes too, the change of heart which has led to a renaissance of tribal culture. This is the final volume in the historical trilogy of the Amazonian Indian tribes, following on from "Red Gold" and "Amazon Frontier". - from Amzon
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