Vital diplomacy : the ritual everyday on a dammed river in Amazonia /

"In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectricity plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawenê-nawê for eight months of each year, during a season called Yankwa. Vit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nahum-Claudel, Chloe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [New York] : Berghahn Books, [2018]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Ethnography, theory, experiment ; 5.
Subjects:
Saluma Indians > Brazil > Rites and ceremonies.
Saluma Indians > Fishing > Amazon River Region.
Political anthropology > Amazon River Region > Philosophy.
Saluma > Brésil > Rites et cérémonies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Political anthropology > Philosophy.
Amazon River Region.
Brazil.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mastery and subjection at the fishing dams
  • The fishermen return 'like Yakairiti'
  • Routine ritualism and a festival of abundance
  • Affinal diplomacy in a united, egalitarian society
  • Cosmic diplomacy : cooking, curing and crafting human life
  • Yankwa's foreign diplomacy and Saluma's defiance.

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