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Anthropologie et Sociétés

Migrations, guerres et identité : faits ethno-historiques zoró

Gilio Brunelli

Volume 11, Number 3, 1987 Article abstract

Migration, War and Identity : Zorô Ethno-history
Une discipline, des histoires
In the heart of the Amazonian rain forest, ethnic identity is not a constant
frozen for all time. Even the concept of " tribe " loses its significance given the
URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/006443ar ebb and flow of populations constantly breaking up and reforming. Recently,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/006443ar attempts have been made to create a conceptual framework able to account for
the dynamic nature of ethnic identity. Within this perspective, the
See table of contents ethno-history of the Zorô is reconstructed. The author shows that the people
known today as the Zorô were formerly a poorly defined collection of local
groups, quite often at war with each other and involved in extensive
migrations. The coming of the White man brought an end to their wars and
Publisher(s) migrations and thus deactivated the mechanisms responsible for dispersal and
Département d'anthropologie de l'Université Laval reformation. Only then did Zorô identity take shape.

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0702-8997 (print)
1703-7921 (digital)

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Brunelli, G. (1987). Migrations, guerres et identité : faits ethno-historiques zoró.
Anthropologie et Sociétés, 11(3), 149–172. https://doi.org/10.7202/006443ar

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