%0 Journal Article %T Misiones religiosas y pol¨Ēticas identitarias: Las misiones de los consolatinos en Kenia y Roraima %A Ara¨˛jo %A Melvina %J Memoria americana %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this article aims to discuss the development of new forms of alterity from the interconnection between the organization of groups which represent and / or are represented as ethnic, the formulation of the concepts of ethnicity and public policies imposed by pressures from social movements and/or international. this will be done on the basis of the literature produced on the subject, as well as empirical data arising from research on the relations between a catholic missionary congregation and the macuxi indians in brazil , and from the same congregation and the kikuyu in kenya. %K ethnic movements %K consolata missionaries %K macuxi %K kikuyu. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-37512008000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en