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Record Nr.

UNINA9910834301103321

Autore

Oakdale Suzanne

Titolo

Amazonian Cosmopolitans : Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects / Suzanne Oakdale ; based on the accounts of Prepori and Sabino Kaiabi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, NB : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781496230010

1496230019

9781496241566

1496241568

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, maps, photograps ; ; digital file (PDF)

Disciplina

305.89/98380811

Soggetti

Kayabi Indians

Kayabi Indians - Social life and customs

Kayabi Indians - Rites and ceremonies

Shamans - Brazil

Social sciences

Humanities

Xingu River Valley (Brazil) Social life and customs

Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shamanic Cosmopolitanism -- The Positivist Cosmopolitanism of the Brazilian Interior -- Labor and Maturity in the Era of Assimilation -- Becoming the Brazilian "Indian" during the Era of President Vargas, 1930-1945 -- Working on the "March to the West" -- The Utopian Cosmopolitanism of the Xingu -- Nostalgia and Disgust.

Sommario/riassunto

Focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia increasingly became the context of large-scale state projects. Both give accounts of how they worked in a



range of interethnic enterprises from the 1920s to the 1960s in central Brazil. Prepori, a shaman, also gives an account of his relations with spirit beings that populate the Kawaiwete cosmos as he participated in these projects. The historical consciousness presented by these narrators centers on how transformations in social relations were experienced in bodily terms—how their bodies changed as new relationships formed. Amazonian Cosmopolitans offers Indigenous perspectives on twentieth-century Brazilian history as well as a way to reimagine lowland peoples as living within vast networks, bridging wide social and cosmological divides.