Aparecida Vilaça

Strange Enemies

Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
Übersetzer: Rodgers, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345565
• ISBN-10: 0822345560
• Artikelnr.: 29922784

Autorenporträt

Aparecida Vilaça

Inhaltsangabe

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