Vital Diplomacy : : The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia / / Chloe Nahum-Claudel.
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 Dipl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of 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