La oposición necesaria al desarrollo moderno en Brasil: el indio y la dictadura civil - militar en Brasil (1964-1985)

Abstract

[EN]Starting from the basis that the Indian is a supra-ethnic category that sticks together all the native inhabitants of America as colonized/colonizable populations and using the study of the documentation of that time, this article aims to demonstrate the survival of the old elements that build the Indian (as savage, barbaric, noble savage, anthropophagous, etc.) in the mentality and in the imagery of the contemporary Brazilian society. The time frame, the civil-military dictatorship (1965-1985), is the key time where the historical evolution changes, giving way to the Brazil of today. During this work we will see how these old assumptions are updated from the needs generated by the historical context of the dictatorship, showing that the Indian, until recent times, was erected as an enemy or ontological counterpart of so-called “civilized societies”