Dissertation Research: Legal Rights and Ethnic/Racial Identity in Northeastern Brazil

论文研究：巴西东北部的法律权利和民族/种族身份

• 批准号: 9911271
• 负责人: William O'Barr
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-01-15 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9911271&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Legal; Rights; Ethnic

This project investigates the impact on identity of a struggle for land where the state has devised legal categories to specify race and ethnicity. Law, the investigators hypothesize, operates as a powerful social force, imposing categories and ordering social relations, and providing structures for self--identification and mobilization. The research will focus on the struggle for legally-guaranteed land rights by a community of descendants of Indians and a neighboring community of descendants of fugitive slaves in the backlands of Sergipe. Methods will include ethnographic field research, such as household surveys, participant observation, interviews, and collecting life stories, supplemented by documentary research. This research has significance for academics and policy-makers and will contribute to the fields of socio-legal studies, history, anthropology, and law. It will contribute to debates about legal treatment of mixed-race rural communities throughout Latin America.

本项目调查了在国家制定了法律的类别以具体说明种族和族裔的情况下，争夺土地对身份的影响。法律，调查人员假设，作为一个强大的社会力量，强加类别和秩序的社会关系，并提供结构的自我认同和动员。这项研究将侧重于塞尔吉佩腹地的一个印第安人后裔社区和邻近的一个逃亡奴隶后裔社区为争取法律保障的土地权利而进行的斗争。方法将包括民族志实地研究，如家庭调查，参与观察，访谈，收集生活故事，辅以文献研究。这项研究对学术界和政策制定者具有重要意义，并将有助于社会法律研究，历史，人类学和法律领域。它将有助于就拉丁美洲各地的混合种族农村社区的法律的待遇问题进行辩论。