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LIMA, Antonio Carlos de Souza. Tutelage Power and the Formation of the State of Brazil: Notes from the Establishment of the Indian Protection and Localization of National Workers Service. Desacatos [online]. 2010, n.33, pp.53-66. ISSN 2448-5144.

The aim of this study is to depict a critique on the narrative construction about the republican State's heroic action towards the indigenous peoples of Brazil, centred on the creation of a governmental agency -the Servicio de Protección a los Indios (Indian Protection Service) in 1910- by diverse stakeholders, predominantly the positivist military members.This is accomplished by showing how the "heroic" version, a self-image of the group that created the agency, became a scientific truth through the work of anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro.The aim of this analysis is to offer elements for opening new interpretative possibilities, even often highlighting indigenist action.

Palabras llave : indigenism; indigenist policies; indigenous peoples of Brazil; Brazilian anthropology; State's anthropology.

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