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Epilogue: The Crisis, the Stranger, and the State

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This chapter concludes that when the central state is called upon to redraw the boundaries of social commonness, a new danger emerges: the coagulation of a new invariable ‘strangeness’ of Ciganos. Under certain conditions, many and variable commonalities between Ciganos and non-Gypsy Bahians that exist might be denied, and the vida do Cigano (Gypsy life), as a form of dwelling and relating to the world, and a source of value and meaning for the people partaking in it, becomes increasingly suspect.

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    Historically, a great deal of cocoa production in the region was carried out by more recent migrants from Europe.

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    Neto is an author of the Brazilian internally colonial nation-state. ‘The first inhabitants’ for whom nature restores the land and who are thus ‘owners of the soil’ in Simmel’s sense are not the Indians, whose presence has been erased and accepted as vanishing, despite the continued struggle of the Tupinambá in southern Bahia today (Viegas 2007).

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Fotta, M. (2018). Epilogue: The Crisis, the Stranger, and the State. In: From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96409-6_8

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