Contra I:

Abstract

The article’s central hypothesis concerns the failure to recognize the specifics of indigenous women’s cultural identities, and the consequent violence to which they are subjected. This hypothesis leads us to a re-discussion of the Brazilian state’s actual legal logic, which seeks to protect inherent rights only within the paradigm of white women, ignoring the possibility of multi-jurisdictional application, in a society characterized by multiculturalism. Thus the main objective of this research is to identify, by mobilizing a markedly interdisciplinary literature, and through an analytic/prescriptive study, the challenges involved in the realization of a set of culturally relevant rights that, given their absence from Brazilian norms, leaves these women in a state of social and legal limbo.