Religious missons and identity policies: the Consolatinos’ missions in Kenia and Roraima

  • Melvina Araújo
Keywords: ethnic movements, Consolata missonaries, macuxí, kikuyu

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the development of new forms of alterity from the interconnection between the organization of groups which represent and / or are represented as ethnic, the formulation of the concepts of ethnicity and public policies imposed by pressures from social movements and/or international. This will be done on the basis of the literature produced on the subject, as well as empirical data arising from research on the relations between a catholic missionary congregation and the macuxi Indians in Brazil, and from the same congregation and the kikuyu in Kenya.

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Published
2008-12-01
How to Cite
Araújo, M. (2008). Religious missons and identity policies: the Consolatinos’ missions in Kenia and Roraima. Memoria Americana. Cuadernos De Etnohistoria, 16(1), 85-104. Retrieved from http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/11887
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