CHALLENGING A TOWN’S IDENTITY: AN ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OVER THE TRADE CONDUCTED BY INDIANS IN A CITY OF THE GAUCHO HIGHLANDS
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.51124Keywords:
urban anthropology, indians in cities, spatial conflicts.Abstract
The article approaches the conflict over the commerce carried out by the Kaingang people in a tourist town located in the Gaucho Highlands, southern Brazil, under the light of the socio-historical process of elaboration of the city’s iconic identity. Despite the government and other local social segments opposing to their marketing activities, with the justification of a required commercial regulation, it is advocated here that the dispute has a deeper explanation -- the shock with the town’s representative identity, which is centered in the idea of a successful ethnic blend, provided by the German and Italian colonization. This shock occurs not only by the presence of the indians in the city, but also by the w of trade undertaken by them, classified as itinerant, as well as by the type of product sold, characterized as industrialized and made in Asia. From this central discussion, other historical and/or contemporary identity contrasts are discussed.Downloads
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2015-06-22
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BAZZO, Juliane. CHALLENGING A TOWN’S IDENTITY: AN ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OVER THE TRADE CONDUCTED BY INDIANS IN A CITY OF THE GAUCHO HIGHLANDS. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 9, n. 1, p. 54, 2015. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.51124. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/51124. Acesso em: 23 sep. 2026.
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