Strange enemies : indigenous agency and scenes of encounters in Amazonia /
This ethnography--translated from the Portuguese-- describes the first encounters between the Wari' Indians and whites, and is the only monographic study to date about the process of contacting a previously isolated indigenous group in the South American.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Portugués |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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Series: | Cultures and practice of violence series.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The foreigner
- The enemy
- The white enemy
- The white enemy
- The foreigner, the dead
- The enemy
- The brother-in-law
- The motives of the whites
- The widening river : contact with the OroNao of the whites
- "The enemy says he's OroNao" : contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijein, and OroMon
- The great expedition : contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia rivers.