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Author Fausto, Carlos.

Title Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia / Carlos Fausto ; translated by David Rodgers
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (370 pages)
Series Cambridge Latin American Studies ; v. 96
Cambridge Latin American studies.
Contents Cover; Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Map; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword to the English Edition; Introduction; On War; The Book; The Research; Acknowledgments; Transcription; Consonants; Vowels; 1: The Matter of Time; First Reports; Depopulation of the Pacajá-Tocantins Region; The People of the Headwaters; Crossroads; The Discovery of Metal Tools; The Split: Western and Eastern Parakanã; Trekking and Fighting; The Kayapó Arrive; The Whites and the Railway; The Tocantins Pacification Post; War in the Forest; The Enemies Disappear
Last Years of AutonomyThe "Pacification" of the Eastern Parakanã; The Great March West; First Years of Dependence; 2: Images of Abundance and Scarcity; Moving; Dispersion and Contraction: The Western Parakanã; A Semi-Domestic Space: The Eastern Parakanã; Planting; Productive Bonds; Horticulture in the Past; Remembering and Forgetting Myths; The Civilizing Opossum; Regressions and Re-Creations; Hunting; Selective Hunters; Alimentary Changes after Contact; Archaisms: Subsistence in the Tropical Forest; 3: Forms through History; Producing Difference; The Difference a Boy Makes
The Nature of Social GroupsAlliance System: Form and Function; Shadows of the Past; Tupi Segmentation Revisited; Producing Equality; Capture Makes a Difference; The Social Forms of Scarcity; Hungry for Women; Les Fleurs du Mal; The Public Sphere; Making Conversation; Defusing the Timebomb; Conflicting Dynamics; Revisiting an Enduring Dualism; 4: The War Factor; The Ways of War; Speech Modalities; Centrifugal Vertigo; The Enemies and Us; War: A User's Guide; Stirring Desires; Shamanic Telescopy; True Enemies, Untrue Friends; Captivating Women; Seeing People; Posthomicide Seclusion
The Misfortune of the WarriorA New Approach to Amazonian Warfare; Revenge and Reciprocity; Warfare as Productive Consumption; 5: The Master and the Pet; A Shamanism without Shamans; Affliction and its Agents; A Taste of Blood; The World of Dreaming; Mastering Enemies; Cannibal Melodies; The Work of Dreams; The Deepest in Enemies is the Skin; The Raw and the Rotten; Cosmological Axes; Soul Matters; Coming-to-Be; My Double and I; The Enemy Dead; The Eschatological Jaguar; A New Approach to Amazonian Shamanism; 6: Death Producing Life; Warfare Rituals, Shamanic Rites; Dancing with Animals
Drinking BeerThe Clarinet Festival; The Tobacco Festival; Nature, Culture, Supernature; A Blend of Blood and Tobacco; The Model of Familiarizing Predation; The Baton's Children; Cannibal Productions; A New Approach to Amazonian Warfare Rituals; 7: Gods, Axes, and Jaguars; The Origin of Pain and the Whites; Of Twins and Opossums; Mortal Immortals; Gods and Conquerors; The Bones Affair; One Who Dies Never Lives Again; Crossing the Great Divide; The Enchantment of Technology; Like People You See in a Dream; Forget about Violence; Whites as Jaguars; Losing the Jaguar; Closing the Circle
Summary Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual
Notes Myth and Antimyth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Parakanã Indians -- Warfare
Parakanã Indians -- Religion
Parakanã Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Shamanism -- Brazil -- Pará (State)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Manners and customs
Shamanism
SUBJECT Pará (Brazil : State) -- Social life and customs
Pará (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs
Subject Brazil -- Pará (State)
Form Electronic book
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