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Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia / Carlos Fausto ; translated by David Rodgers.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Cambridge Latin American studiesPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (370 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781139338790
  • 113933879X
  • 1107020069
  • 9781107020061
  • 9781139337052
  • 113933705X
  • 9781139096669
  • 1139096664
  • 1139334476
  • 9781139334471
  • 1280394196
  • 9781280394195
  • 9786613572110
  • 661357211X
  • 1139337920
  • 9781139337922
  • 1139340379
  • 9781139340373
  • 1139341952
  • 9781139341950
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: Fausto, Carlos.: Warfare and shamanism in Amazonia.DDC classification:
  • 299.8911 299/.8911 981.00498
LOC classification:
  • F2520.1 .P38 F39 2012
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  • online - EBSCO
  • SOC002010
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Contents:
Cover; Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Map; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword to the English Edition; Introduction; On War; The Book; The Research; Acknowledgments; Transcription; Consonants; Vowels; 1: The Matter of Time; First Reports; Depopulation of the Pacajá-Tocantins Region; The People of the Headwaters; Crossroads; The Discovery of Metal Tools; The Split: Western and Eastern Parakanã; Trekking and Fighting; The Kayapó Arrive; The Whites and the Railway; The Tocantins Pacification Post; War in the Forest; The Enemies Disappear.
Last Years of AutonomyThe "Pacification" of the Eastern Parakanã; The Great March West; First Years of Dependence; 2: Images of Abundance and Scarcity; Moving; Dispersion and Contraction: The Western Parakanã; A Semi-Domestic Space: The Eastern Parakanã; Planting; Productive Bonds; Horticulture in the Past; Remembering and Forgetting Myths; The Civilizing Opossum; Regressions and Re-Creations; Hunting; Selective Hunters; Alimentary Changes after Contact; Archaisms: Subsistence in the Tropical Forest; 3: Forms through History; Producing Difference; The Difference a Boy Makes.
The Nature of Social GroupsAlliance System: Form and Function; Shadows of the Past; Tupi Segmentation Revisited; Producing Equality; Capture Makes a Difference; The Social Forms of Scarcity; Hungry for Women; Les Fleurs du Mal; The Public Sphere; Making Conversation; Defusing the Timebomb; Conflicting Dynamics; Revisiting an Enduring Dualism; 4: The War Factor; The Ways of War; Speech Modalities; Centrifugal Vertigo; The Enemies and Us; War: A User's Guide; Stirring Desires; Shamanic Telescopy; True Enemies, Untrue Friends; Captivating Women; Seeing People; Posthomicide Seclusion.
The Misfortune of the WarriorA New Approach to Amazonian Warfare; Revenge and Reciprocity; Warfare as Productive Consumption; 5: The Master and the Pet; A Shamanism without Shamans; Affliction and its Agents; A Taste of Blood; The World of Dreaming; Mastering Enemies; Cannibal Melodies; The Work of Dreams; The Deepest in Enemies is the Skin; The Raw and the Rotten; Cosmological Axes; Soul Matters; Coming-to-Be; My Double and I; The Enemy Dead; The Eschatological Jaguar; A New Approach to Amazonian Shamanism; 6: Death Producing Life; Warfare Rituals, Shamanic Rites; Dancing with Animals.
Drinking BeerThe Clarinet Festival; The Tobacco Festival; Nature, Culture, Supernature; A Blend of Blood and Tobacco; The Model of Familiarizing Predation; The Baton's Children; Cannibal Productions; A New Approach to Amazonian Warfare Rituals; 7: Gods, Axes, and Jaguars; The Origin of Pain and the Whites; Of Twins and Opossums; Mortal Immortals; Gods and Conquerors; The Bones Affair; One Who Dies Never Lives Again; Crossing the Great Divide; The Enchantment of Technology; Like People You See in a Dream; Forget about Violence; Whites as Jaguars; Losing the Jaguar; Closing the Circle.
Summary: Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.
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Cover; Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Map; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword to the English Edition; Introduction; On War; The Book; The Research; Acknowledgments; Transcription; Consonants; Vowels; 1: The Matter of Time; First Reports; Depopulation of the Pacajá-Tocantins Region; The People of the Headwaters; Crossroads; The Discovery of Metal Tools; The Split: Western and Eastern Parakanã; Trekking and Fighting; The Kayapó Arrive; The Whites and the Railway; The Tocantins Pacification Post; War in the Forest; The Enemies Disappear.

Last Years of AutonomyThe "Pacification" of the Eastern Parakanã; The Great March West; First Years of Dependence; 2: Images of Abundance and Scarcity; Moving; Dispersion and Contraction: The Western Parakanã; A Semi-Domestic Space: The Eastern Parakanã; Planting; Productive Bonds; Horticulture in the Past; Remembering and Forgetting Myths; The Civilizing Opossum; Regressions and Re-Creations; Hunting; Selective Hunters; Alimentary Changes after Contact; Archaisms: Subsistence in the Tropical Forest; 3: Forms through History; Producing Difference; The Difference a Boy Makes.

The Nature of Social GroupsAlliance System: Form and Function; Shadows of the Past; Tupi Segmentation Revisited; Producing Equality; Capture Makes a Difference; The Social Forms of Scarcity; Hungry for Women; Les Fleurs du Mal; The Public Sphere; Making Conversation; Defusing the Timebomb; Conflicting Dynamics; Revisiting an Enduring Dualism; 4: The War Factor; The Ways of War; Speech Modalities; Centrifugal Vertigo; The Enemies and Us; War: A User's Guide; Stirring Desires; Shamanic Telescopy; True Enemies, Untrue Friends; Captivating Women; Seeing People; Posthomicide Seclusion.

The Misfortune of the WarriorA New Approach to Amazonian Warfare; Revenge and Reciprocity; Warfare as Productive Consumption; 5: The Master and the Pet; A Shamanism without Shamans; Affliction and its Agents; A Taste of Blood; The World of Dreaming; Mastering Enemies; Cannibal Melodies; The Work of Dreams; The Deepest in Enemies is the Skin; The Raw and the Rotten; Cosmological Axes; Soul Matters; Coming-to-Be; My Double and I; The Enemy Dead; The Eschatological Jaguar; A New Approach to Amazonian Shamanism; 6: Death Producing Life; Warfare Rituals, Shamanic Rites; Dancing with Animals.

Drinking BeerThe Clarinet Festival; The Tobacco Festival; Nature, Culture, Supernature; A Blend of Blood and Tobacco; The Model of Familiarizing Predation; The Baton's Children; Cannibal Productions; A New Approach to Amazonian Warfare Rituals; 7: Gods, Axes, and Jaguars; The Origin of Pain and the Whites; Of Twins and Opossums; Mortal Immortals; Gods and Conquerors; The Bones Affair; One Who Dies Never Lives Again; Crossing the Great Divide; The Enchantment of Technology; Like People You See in a Dream; Forget about Violence; Whites as Jaguars; Losing the Jaguar; Closing the Circle.

Myth and Antimyth.

Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.