Saúde indígena e políticas públicas: Alteridade e estado de exceção

Abstract

This article analyzes the forms of objectivation of indigenous peoples in Brazil regarding health public policies. This reflection has stemmed from the way in which indigenous peoples have become a focus of public policies since 1910, when the Service of Indigenous Protection and Localization of National Workers (SPI) was created. The discussion was grounded on the analysis of SPI's regulations from 1910 to 1963. The main line of investigation was the Foucauldian perspective of power/knowledge relations, as well as the concept of alterity and state of exception. The indigenous issue has been considered as an emergency in the territory of public policies and discussed as a historicalpolitical line which shapes both subjects and objects.