This in-depth study examines the colonized native groups of the Kariri and the Shoko of North-eastern Brazil and it shows how a threatened minority group can effectively help to shape its future and how small groups of disenfranchized individuals can recover their ethnic identity and human dignity. The significance of this study extends far beyond these groups alone, and the book will be of interest to students of ethnicity, folklore, ethnobotany and epistemology. Published in the Indigenous Knowledge and Development series.

Clarice Novaes da Mota
Clarice Novaes da Mota is Program Associate for Brazil at IPAS/USA, IPAS Brazil and Adjunct Professor at the Instituto de Filosofia e Cincias Sociais, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro.

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