Um ensaio sobre a alteridade – o índio brasileiro: da teoria da bondade natural à denegação

Abstract

Th e purpose of this article is to discuss the essay by Arinos de Melo Franco: Th e Brazilian Indian and the French Revolution - Th e Brazilian origins of the theory of natural goodness, questioning, to this date, the perspectives on Native Brazilians that coalesced in the Western imagination and that the author details over the long term, from a dual standpoint: exaltation and denial.