Vilaça / Aparecida Vilaca / Whitehead Strange Enemies

Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9128-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: The Cultures and Practice of Violence

This vivid ethnographic account of the first peaceful encounters between the Wari Indians of western Brazil and missionaries and government workers emphasizes how the Wari perceived the interactions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vilaça, Aparecida

Aparecida Vilaca, Vilaca

Whitehead, Neil L.

Fair, Jo Ellen

Payne, Leigh A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rodgers, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.