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Especially in the final years of Salazar\u2019s regime, this discursive denial of reciprocity competed with an alternative model of representation of colonial society, characterised by a repetitive use of micro-familial positions in the conceptualization of Imperial encounters. However, this model cannot be discounted as an autistic production of colonial power, mirrored by certain social groups, namely, the leaders of the main Indian communities. We will accordingly explore the hypothesis of a co-authorship, both in the gradual recognition of mutual relations between the Portuguese and Indians, and in the emergence of the family-based model of colonial relations itself.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1163\/17683084-01501006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,29]],"date-time":"2018-11-29T13:43:38Z","timestamp":1543499018000},"page":"77-95","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Ambivalence and Phantasm in the Portuguese Colonial Discursive Production on Indians (Mozambique)"],"prefix":"10.4000","volume":"XV(1)","author":[{"given":"Susana","family":"Pereira Bastos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"2399","reference":[{"key":"ref0","unstructured":"October 2006"},{"key":"ref1","unstructured":"Alpers,\u00a0E.A.\u00a01999, \u201cIslam in the service of Colonialism? 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