From the enemy's point of view : humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society /
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| Author / Creator: | Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de author |
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| Uniform title: | Araweté. English |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992. |
| Description: | xx, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1310527 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Translator's Note
- Preface Note on Orthography
- 1. Cosmology and Society
- 1. The Cannibal Gods
- 2. Living with the Araweteacute
- 3. The Tupi-Guarani Landscape
- 2. Approaching the Araweteacute
- 1. The Country
- 2. The Regional Context
- 3. The People
- 4. History
- 3. The Forsaken Ones
- 1. The Separation
- 2. Who's Who in the Cosmos
- 3. Gods and Spirits
- 4. Tupi-Guarani Cosmologies
- 4. The Frame of Life
- 1. The Year
- 2. The Village
- 3. A Day in the Dry Season
- 4. Difficulty at the Beginning
- 5. Nurture and Supernature
- 1. Mild Beer
- 2. Strong Beer
- 3. Meat and Honey
- 4. The Alimentary Forms of the Religious Life
- 6. Familiar Terms
- 1. The Mixture
- 2. Names
- 3. Relatives
- 4. Eluding Affinity
- 7. Birth, Copulation, and Death
- 1. The Facts of Life
- 2. Passions
- 3. Death
- 4. Only the Bones Forget
- 8. Alien Words
- 1. The Marriage of Heaven and Earth
- 2. Shamanism and the Music of the Gods
- 3. Killers and the Music of Enemies
- 4. The Enemy's Point of View
- 9. Beings of Becoming
- 1. The Cannibal Cogito
- 2. Spiritual Dualism and the Cosmological Triads
- 3. My Brother-in-law the Jaguar
- 10. The Anti-Narcissus
- 1. Vengeance and Sacrifice
- 2. A Rare Bird
- 3. On Dialogical Anthropology
- 4. The Anti-Social Contract
- 5. Eaters of Raw Flesh
- Appendix 1-A. Araweteacute; Villages in 1981-83
- Appendix 1-B. List of Historical Araweteacute; Villages
- Appendix 2-A. Araweteacute; Population
- Appendix 2-B. Genealogies
- Appendix 3. Botanical and Zoological Terms (English, Portuguese, Araweteacute;, Latin)
- Appendix 4. Glossary of Araweteacute
- Terms
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index