ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the book by Shelton Davis, the guiding spirit behind the Anthropology Resource Center, which is an ambitious attempt to show how the Brazilian government's efforts, develop the Amazon region. The argument that Davis offers is simple enough: the Indians have been made to pay the price for the Brazilian "miracle" of lopsided economic development. Davis's book offers some fascinating political documentary of the conflict between the efforts of Orlando, Claudio, and Leonardo Villas Boas to create a protected haven for the Indians of Brazil, and the resistance of the new president of Brazilian National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). Whatever the intentions behind these policies, the essential characteristics of genocide have become increasingly apparent in the Indian regions of the Amazon. Davis attributes genocide to the economic rapaciousness of multinational corporations, and Arens and his colleagues attribute it to the political rapaciousness of traditionalist dictators.
