This book explores an academic culture in which disciplines are isolated and then further divided into specialized fields, resulting in a mix of scholarly alienation and disciplinary territorialism, specialized inquiry and a poverty of general discussion. After an introductory chapter, the following subjects are addressed: (1) influences on…

Xingu National Park was officially set up in 1961 on the initiative of the Villas Boas brothers, whose intention was to afford shelter from economic expansion and its consequences in the form of disease and poverty to a certain number of still isolated tribes, and to give them the opportunity of being integrated gradually into the dominant…