摘要：The year 1992 marked the five-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Europeans in what was then, for them, the ‘New World’. This anniversary was both (critically) celebrated and often contested all over the Americas, generating a wealth of scholarship on the socio-historical context of this landmark and the disruptive consequences of the conquest, as well as much post-colonial critique about the enduring legacy of colonialism. As part of this moment of reflection and self-reflection, anthropologists and historians in Brazil – including indigenous scholars – engaged in a series of events that used this ephemeral occasion to take stock of the socio-cultural, demographic, economic and political circumstances under which the native peoples in Brazil were living, in order to create more positive scenarios for the future.
