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Strange enemies : indigenous agency and scenes of encounters in Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaça ; translated by David Rodgers.

Title: Strange enemies : indigenous agency and scenes of encounters in Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaça ; translated by David Rodgers.
Author: Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958-
Publication: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.

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Description

xv, 370 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cultures and practice of violence series

Uniform Title

Cultures and practice of violence series.
Quem somos nós. English

Alternative Title

Quem somos nós.

Subject

Note

Originally published in Portuguese: Brazil : Editora UFRJ, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The foreigner -- The enemy -- The white enemy -- The white enemy -- The foreigner, the dead -- The enemy -- The brother-in-law -- The motives of the whites -- The widening river : contact with the OroNao' of the whites -- "The enemy says he's OroNao'" : contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijein, and OroMon -- The great expedition : contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia rivers.

ISBN

9780822345565 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822345560 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822345732 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822345730 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009044001

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries