This ethnography--translated from the Portuguese-- describes the first encounters between the Wari' Indians and whites, and is the only monographic study to date about the process of contacting a previously isolated indigenous group in the South American
This ethnography--translated from the Portuguese-- describes the first encounters between the Wari' Indians and whites, and is the only monographic study to date about the process of contacting a previously isolated indigenous group in the South American
Aparecida Vilaça is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. She is a co-editor of Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity in the Americas.
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List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Orthography xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Other Becoming 1. The Foreigner 25 2. The Enemy 70 3. The White Enemy 110 Part II. In Myth 4. The White Enemy 135 5. The Foreigner, the Dead 146 6. The Enemy 164 7. The Brother-in-Law 175 Part III. We Want People for Ourselves: Pácification 8. The Motives of the Whites 197 9. The Widening River: Contact with the OroNao of the Whites 210 10. "The Enemy Says He's OroNao": Contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijien, and OroMon 229 11. The Great Expedition: Contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia Rivers 255 Conclusion 301 Notes 321 Bibliography 341 Index 357
List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Orthography xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Other Becoming 1. The Foreigner 25 2. The Enemy 70 3. The White Enemy 110 Part II. In Myth 4. The White Enemy 135 5. The Foreigner, the Dead 146 6. The Enemy 164 7. The Brother-in-Law 175 Part III. We Want People for Ourselves: Pácification 8. The Motives of the Whites 197 9. The Widening River: Contact with the OroNao of the Whites 210 10. "The Enemy Says He's OroNao": Contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijien, and OroMon 229 11. The Great Expedition: Contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia Rivers 255 Conclusion 301 Notes 321 Bibliography 341 Index 357
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