%0 Journal Article %T Dial¨¦ticas coloniais: a constru£¿£¿o do estado e as transforma£¿£¿es da organiza£¿£¿o social ind¨ªgena sul-americana %A Ferreira %A Andrey Cordeiro %J Revista Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias Sociais %D 2011 %I Associa??o Nacional de P¨®s-Gradua??o e Pesquisa em Ci¨ºncias Sociais - ANPOCS %R 10.1590/S0102-69092011000300009 %X this article has as its objective to put forward some hypotheses about the dialectical relationships between two social processes. on the one hand, the nation-building process in brazil and on the another hand the transformation of the south american indigenous social organizations. our starting point is a specific ethnographic background, the chaco/pantanal (floodable swamps in central brazil). we make a critique of some evolutionist and structuralist views on state building and indigenous peoples leadership, demonstrating how the segmentary organization and the reciprocity logic are interwoven into colonial social-historical dialectics. %K colonialism %K reciprocity %K segmentarity %K political processes. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-69092011000300009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en