October 9, 2020
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Cyril Menta, « Exhiber le rituel », Terrain, ID : 10.4000/terrain.20531
In the Northeast of Brazil throughout the 1920s, violent conflicts opposed indigenous groups, caboclos and landowners. In this context rituals began to be performed and to circulate between indigenous groups who wanted to have their Indigenous status, and associated territorial rights, recognised by the Brazilian state. This article traces this history of the praiás dance, a ritual that stages a cosmic war between invisible entities. It examines the ways that the ritual has been enrolled in the diplomatic work conducted by anthropologists and Indigenous groups to obtain legal protections from the State.