Strange enemies : indigenous agency and scenes of encounters in Amazonia /

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Author / Creator:	Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958-
Uniform title:	Quem somos nós. English
Imprint:	Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Description:	xv, 370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cultures and practice of violence series Cultures and practice of violence series.
Subject:	Pakaasnovos Indians -- History. Pakaasnovos Indians -- Social life and customs. Indians of South America -- Brazil. Indians of South America. Pakaasnovos Indians. Brazil. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8056339

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ISBN:	9780822345565 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822345560 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822345732 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822345730 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Originally published in Portuguese: Brazil : Editora UFRJ, 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the Portuguese.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Orthography
Introduction
Part I. Other Becoming
1. The Foreigner
2. The Enemy
3. The White Enemy
Part II. In Myth
4. The White Enemy
5. The Foreigner, the Dead
6. The Enemy
7. The Brother-in-Law
Part III. We Want People for Ourselves: Pacification
8. The Motives of the Whites
9. The Widening River: Contact with the OroNao' of the Whites
10. "The Enemy Says He's OroNao'": Contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijein, and oroMon
11. The Great Expedition: Contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia Rivers
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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