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Vilaça, Aparecida

 
9780822345732: Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
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ISBN 10 : 0822345730 ISBN 13 : 9780822345732
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari' Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari' announced, "We touched their bodies!" Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that "the region's most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!" Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different worldviews.

During the 1940s and 1950s, white rubber tappers invading the Wari' lands raided the native villages, shooting and killing their victims as they slept. These massacres prompted the Wari' to initiate a period of intense retaliatory warfare. The national government and religious organizations subsequently intervened, seeking to "pacify" the Indians. Aparecida Vilaça was able to interview both Wari' and non-Wari' participants in these encounters, and here she shares their firsthand narratives of the dramatic events. Taking the Wari' perspective as its starting point, Strange Enemies combines a detailed examination of these cross-cultural encounters with analyses of classic ethnological themes such as kinship, shamanism, cannibalism, warfare, and mythology.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822345730
ISBN 13 
9780822345732
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
390
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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