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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: At the edge of conquest
    sub title: the journey of Chief Wai-Wai
  name:
    name part: O'Connor, Geoffrey.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (30 min.).
  abstract: At the Edge of Conquest looks at the situation of the Waiapi Indians, a small, isolated tribe that came in contact with the outside world in the late 1970s. Today they are threatened by invading gold miners, by the Brazilian government s recent proposal to reduce their land by 10%, and the state government s plan to construct a highway directly through their territory. But their strategy for survival has been effective: defend their lands from invasions while their leaders navigate the tricky waters of Brazilian politics. The film focuses on the charismatic leader, Chief Wai-Wai, as he travels from his remote village to Brazil's capitol, encountering for the first time airplanes, elevators, and skyscrapers. But the real barriers are not physical but bureaucratic and cultural. He doesn't read or write, has never been at a meeting before, and doesn't speak the language of these foreign people. Unlike the traditional depictions of indigenous persons as pristine, removed from the forces of the outside world, At the Edge of Conquest reveals a society grappling with the real politique of a larger nation-state. Chief Wai-Wai is fighting the role of victim in a desperate effort to shape the destiny of his people. It is a voyage resembling a cross between Alice in Wonderland and a Kafkaesque nightmare. But it is one which ultimately all isolated indigenous societies are forced to make if they are to survive this rapidly changing world.
  target audience: For High School; College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: produced by Geoffrey O'Connor.
  note: Originally released as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Previously released as DVD.
  note: This edition in English.
  subject:
    geographic code: s-bl---
  subject:
    topic: Indians of South America
    geographic: Brazil
  subject:
    topic: Wayampi Indians
  subject:
    geographic: Brazil
  classification: GN303 .A884 1992
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)747796206
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324205613.2
    record identifier: in00003744011