Introduction -- Chief's speech : Wauja ancestors, political authority, and belonging -- Bringing spirits : ritual curing and Wauja relations with spirits -- Kuri sings : intergroup rivalry and alter-centricity -- Inalienability : possession and exchange in intergroup relations -- Interdiscursive rivers : protesting the Paranatinga II Dam -- Pragmatics of development : asymmetries in interethnic exchange -- Taking spirits to France : Wauja identity on a world stage -- Conclusion : what we owe.
Summary
This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors.
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