Strange Enemies : Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia PDF
by Vilaca Aparecida Vilaca
Part of the The Cultures and Practice of Violence series
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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 Vilaca 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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- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:19/05/2010
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- ISBN:9780822391289
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:19/05/2010
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- ISBN:9780822391289