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Vital Diplomacy : The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia / Chloe Nahum-Claudel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785334061
  • 9781785334078
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.898/39 23
LOC classification:
  • F2520.1.S24 N34 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE -- Map -- Introduction -- 1 Mastery and Subjection at the Fishing Dams -- 2 The Fishermen Return ‘Like Yakairiti’ -- 3 Routine Ritualism and a Festival of Abundance -- 4 Affinal Diplomacy in a United, Egalitarian Society -- 5 Cosmic Diplomacy: Cooking, Curing and Crafting Human Life Cooking, Curing and Crafting Human Life -- 6 Yankwa’s Foreign Diplomacy and Saluma’s Defiance -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: 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. Vital Diplomacy focuses on this major ceremonial cycle to shed new light on classic Amazonian themes such as kinship, gender, manioc cultivation and cuisine, relations with non-humans and foreigners, and the interplay of myth and practice, exploring how ritual contains and diverts the threat of violence by reconciling antagonistic spirits, coordinating social and gender divides, and channelling foreign relations and resources.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE -- Map -- Introduction -- 1 Mastery and Subjection at the Fishing Dams -- 2 The Fishermen Return ‘Like Yakairiti’ -- 3 Routine Ritualism and a Festival of Abundance -- 4 Affinal Diplomacy in a United, Egalitarian Society -- 5 Cosmic Diplomacy: Cooking, Curing and Crafting Human Life Cooking, Curing and Crafting Human Life -- 6 Yankwa’s Foreign Diplomacy and Saluma’s Defiance -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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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. Vital Diplomacy focuses on this major ceremonial cycle to shed new light on classic Amazonian themes such as kinship, gender, manioc cultivation and cuisine, relations with non-humans and foreigners, and the interplay of myth and practice, exploring how ritual contains and diverts the threat of violence by reconciling antagonistic spirits, coordinating social and gender divides, and channelling foreign relations and resources.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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