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Dialéticas coloniais: a constru??o do estado e as transforma??es da organiza??o social indígena sul-americanaDOI: 10.1590/S0102-69092011000300009 Keywords: colonialism, reciprocity, segmentarity, political processes. Abstract: 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.
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