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Informationen zum Autor Aparecida VilaÇa is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. She is a co-editor of Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity in the Americas. Klappentext In 1956, in the Brazilian state of RondÔnia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that “the region’s most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!” Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different worldviews.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 VilaÇa 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. Zusammenfassung This vivid ethnographic account of the first peaceful encounters between the Wari Indians of western Brazil and missionaries and government workers emphasizes how the Wari perceived the interactions. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Orthography xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Other Becoming 1. The Foreigner 25 2. The Enemy 70 3. The White Enemy 110 Part II. In Myth 4. The White Enemy 135 5. The Foreigner, the Dead 146 6. The Enemy 164 7. The Brother-in-Law 175 Part III. We Want People for Ourselves: PÁcification 8. The Motives of the Whites 197 9. The Widening River: Contact with the OroNao of the Whites 210 10. "The Enemy Says He's OroNao": Contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijien, and OroMon 229 11. The Great Expedition: Contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia Rivers 255 Conclusion 301 Notes 321 Bibliography 341 Index 357...
