"Discourse analysis of domination in the relations between the Fundação Nacional do Indio (FUNAI) and the Waimiri-Atroari indigenous group of northern Brazil. Explores construction of ethnic identity in the contact situation through the FUNAI agents' systematic manipulation, implantation of 'total institutions' of domination, and reinforcement of historical stereotypes of contact. A major advance in situational analyses of interethnic relations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.