This article analyzes the land conflict between plantation owners and indigenous activists in
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, by ethnographically tracing the role of state‐issued identification …

Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel
Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for political survival. In …

This study aims to analyse the processes associated with indigenous struggles, particularly
in relation to the Guarani and Kaiowá in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. Such processes …

This study examines the relationship between indigenous identity, ancestral land, and socio-
politics in Brazil. The author analyzes the practices by which contemporary indigenous …

In the last century, national and international movements in capital and ideas have
contributed to the radical transformation of the Brazilian countryside. In Mato Grosso do Sul …

In the last half century Brazil's rural economy has developed profitable soy and sugarcane
plantations, causing mass displacement of rural inhabitants, deforestation, casualization of …

Anthropologists have rarely worked with rural elites, despite their important role in debates
about economic development and environmental sustainability. Based on a long-term …

The article deals with the meaning and the management of land-based resources by
indigenous peoples, which are analyzed through an assessment of the lived spaces of the …

This dissertation investigates how relationships between society and nature are changed
through the struggle for land and agrarian reform in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Since …

Persistent conflict between small‐farmer migrants and the owners of large estates has
characterized frontier expansion in the Brazilian Amazon region. These two groups respond …