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Author Oakdale, Suzanne, author.

Title Amazonian cosmopolitans : navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting indigenous policies, and other modern projects / Suzanne Oakdale ; based on the accounts of Prepori and Sabino Kaiabi
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- 1. Shamanic Cosmopolitanism -- 2. The Positivist Cosmopolitanism of the Brazilian Interior -- 3. Labor and Maturity in the Era of Assimilation -- 4. Becoming the Brazilian "Indian" during the Era of President Vargas, 1930-1945 -- 5. Working on the "March to the West" -- 6. The Utopian Cosmopolitanism of the Xingu -- 7. Nostalgia and Disgust -- Conclusion -- Source Acknowledgments
Summary "Amazonian Cosmopolitans focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia increasingly became the context of large-scale state projects. Both give accounts of how they worked in a range of interethnic enterprises from the 1920s to the 1960s in central Brazil. Prepori, a shaman, also gives an account of his relations with spirit beings that populate the Kawaiwete cosmos as he participated in these projects. Like other Indigenous Amazonians, Kawaiwete value engagement with outsiders, particularly for leaders and shamanic healers. These social engagements encourage a careful watching and learning of others' habits, customs, and sometimes languages, what could be called a kind of cosmopolitanism or an attitude of openness, leading to an expansion of the boundaries of community. The historical consciousness presented by these narrators centers on how transformations in social relations were experienced in bodily terms--how their bodies changed as new relationships formed. Amazonian Cosmopolitans offers Indigenous perspectives on twentieth-century Brazilian history as well as a way to reimagine lowland peoples as living within vast networks, bridging wide social and cosmological divides. "-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Prepori (Kayabi shaman)
Sabino (Kayabi leader)
SUBJECT Sabino (Kayabi leader)
Prepori (Kayabi shaman)
Subject Kayabi Indians -- Biography
Kayabi Indians -- Social life and customs
Kayabi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Shamans -- Brazil -- Biography
HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Kayabi Indians
Manners and customs
Shamans
SUBJECT Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- Social life and customs
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) -- Social life and customs
Subject Brazil
Brazil -- Parque Nacional do Xingu
Brazil -- Xingu River Valley
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496230249
1496230248
9781496230232
149623023X