Military dictatorship and disciplinary practices in the control of indigenous people: Psychosocial perspectives on the Figueiredo Report

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze disciplinary records relating to indigenous peoples as described in the Figueiredo Report, considering the ethnic and social control exercised during the military dictatorship years in Brazil. In this sense, it follows from the context in which the Commission National Truth, through the work of the indigenous stem, has identified a set of documents, reported missing since the sixties: The Figueiredo report, which deals with the investigation of a Commission of Inquiry on allegations of crimes committed by the very Indigenous Protection Service against indigenous population. The theoretical option methodology is based on the genealogy of Foucault, as well as his principles on disciplinary practices. Identifying disciplinary practices used with indigenous people in the period of dictatorship will therefore be important to understand how native Brazilian's bodies have been assaulted as a result of social control strategies.