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25 Soc. & Legal Stud. 3 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/solestu25 and id is 1 raw text is: Article The (IIlegal Indian: The Tupinamba and the Juridification of Indigenous Rights and Lives in North-Eastern Brazil Social & Legal Studies 2016, Vol. 25(1) 3-21 © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.ukljournalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/09646639 15593412 sls.sagepub.com OSAGE Peter Anton Zoetti Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA)-University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal Abstract This article traces different aspects of the present-day juridification and judicialization of indigenous lives using the example of the Tupinambi Indians of north-eastern Brazil. The Tupinambi's identity is being increasingly bureaucratized by public administration and is constantly being questioned by public and private agents to deny the Tupinambi's constitutional land rights. In the course of the still ongoing process of the demarcation of the Indigenous Territory Tupinambi de Olivenea, indigenous inhabitants are facing a plethora of civil actions, and Tupinambi leaders are being persecuted and criminalized by the police and the judiciary. This article exposes the legal intricacies of possessory actions against indigenous people in Brazil and discusses the different acts and attitudes of the actors of the Brazilian 'juridical field' as regards the indigenous rights. It suggests a view of law, law enforcement and law suits as means of social sense making, that is, a public staging, interpretation, imagining and 'mapping' of Brazil's 'indigenous question', which has, ultimately, to be legitimized by society at large. Keywords Brazil, indigenous identity, indigenous rights, legal anthropology, territorial disputes, Tupinambi Indians Corresponding author: Peter Anton Zoettl, Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA)-University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Av. Forsas Armadas, Lisbon 1649-026, Portugal. Email: pazln@iscte.pt

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