O índio, o “oportunista” e o estar no Brasil: tensões, interesses e análise sobre identidade na mídia e a profissão do antropólogo

Abstract

This article reflects on the peculiar form of matter that a large-circulation national magazine builds his arguments in order to consider the activities of affirming the right to land by indigenous groups or organized black. This report suggests criteria loose and opportunistic on the part of NGOs and anthropologists in order to maintain a kind of corruption in the process of recognition of land these two social segments. The empirical and theoretical problems in the construction of identity seem to be the main reference in the confusion created by the story and deserve to be discussed to point out its limits and possibilities. The tension between politics and identification process is underscored in the relationship built by the characters involved in this complex plot that tries to culminate in the legal assertion of ethnic identity.