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Indigenous youth in Brazilian Amazonia

by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

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How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how current power relations constituted by ethnic recognition, new social contacts, and cooperation with different institutions have shaped the current native youth in Amazonia.

Social conditionsSocial life and customsIndigenous youthRites and ceremoniesIndian youthBrazil, social conditionsBrazil, social life and customsIndigenous peoplesSOCIAL SCIENCEAnthropologyCulturalDiscrimination & Race Relations