| Preface and Acknowledgments |
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Preparations for Fieldwork |
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5 | (10) |
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15 | (4) |
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Techniques for Learning about Indians |
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19 | (5) |
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24 | (1) |
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The Changing World of the Bakairi Indians |
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25 | (22) |
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25 | (2) |
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Serendipity and Making Time for History |
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27 | (1) |
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The Ancestors Arrive in the New World |
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28 | (2) |
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In Search of Slaves and Gold: The Colonial Period and the Bakairi (1500-1822) |
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30 | (2) |
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The Bakairi Divide: The Postcolonial Period (1822-1920) |
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32 | (4) |
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At Home on the Paranatinga: The Bakairi on Their New Reservation (1920-1958) |
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36 | (2) |
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Teachers and Indian Agents: The Bakairi and Government Development Policies (1958-1980) |
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38 | (4) |
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The Bakairi Divide Again: Pakuera Fissions in the 1980s (1980-1990) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (3) |
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Bakairi Households, Fertility, and Mortality |
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47 | (26) |
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Some Methodological Points |
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48 | (1) |
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Village and Household Composition |
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49 | (6) |
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Sex, Menstruation, and Marriage |
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55 | (5) |
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60 | (3) |
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Nursing, Abortion, and Infanticide |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (4) |
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71 | (2) |
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Making a Living, Bakairi Style |
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73 | (26) |
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73 | (3) |
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The Ecology of the Region |
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76 | (6) |
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Slash-and-Burn Horticulture and Mechanized Agriculture |
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82 | (7) |
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Fishing, Herding, and Hunting |
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89 | (6) |
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The Bakairi and Sources of Cash |
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95 | (2) |
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97 | (2) |
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Living and Working in Groups |
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99 | (22) |
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99 | (7) |
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106 | (9) |
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115 | (4) |
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119 | (2) |
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The Bakairi and Their Dancing Masks |
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121 | (16) |
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Excerpts from My Field Diary |
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121 | (2) |
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A ``Ritually Powerful Event'' |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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Kwamba, the Playful, and Yakwigado, the Dignified |
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124 | (4) |
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The Masks Organize the Bakairi Economy |
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128 | (2) |
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The Masks Bind Bakairi Society Together |
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130 | (3) |
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The Masks Reflect a Living Belief System |
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133 | (3) |
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A Final Word about the Masks |
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136 | (1) |
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Leading the Bakairi into the Twenty-first Century |
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137 | (20) |
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138 | (5) |
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Leadership and Socioeconomics |
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143 | (6) |
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149 | (5) |
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154 | (3) |
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The Bakairi: Indians, Ethnic Minority, or Both? |
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157 | (28) |
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The Bakairi in a Global Context |
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157 | (10) |
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Peasants, Small Farmers, and Indians |
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167 | (7) |
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The Bakairi as an Ethnic Minority |
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174 | (7) |
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181 | (4) |
| Appendix: Learning Guide |
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185 | (18) |
| References |
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| Index |
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