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1 online resource (370 pages). |
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text file |
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Cambridge Latin American Studies ; v. 96
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Cambridge Latin American studies.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Myth and Antimyth. |
| Summary |
Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Parakanã Indians -- Warfare.
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Parakanã Indians. |
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Military art and science. |
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Parakanã Indians -- Religion.
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Religion. |
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Parakanã Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Shamanism -- Brazil -- Pará (State)
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Shamanism. |
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Brazil -- Pará (State) |
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Pará (Brazil : State) -- Social life and customs.
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Pará (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fausto, Carlos. Warfare and shamanism in Amazonia. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107020061 (DLC) 2011040933 (OCoLC)794361799 |
| ISBN |
9781139338790 |
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113933879X |
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1107020069 |
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9781107020061 |
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9781139337052 (electronic book) |
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113933705X (electronic book) |
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9781139096669 (electronic book) |
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1139096664 (electronic book) |
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9781139340373 |
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9786613572110 |
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