Bakairi Indians of Brazil: Politics, Ecology, and Change

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Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Waveland Pr Inc
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Beginning Fieldwork
1(24)
Arriving at Pakuera
1(4)
Preparations for Fieldwork
5(10)
Negotiating a Role
15(4)
Techniques for Learning about Indians
19(5)
Summary
24(1)
The Changing World of the Bakairi Indians
25(22)
Before We Begin...
25(2)
Serendipity and Making Time for History
27(1)
The Ancestors Arrive in the New World
28(2)
In Search of Slaves and Gold: The Colonial Period and the Bakairi (1500-1822)
30(2)
The Bakairi Divide: The Postcolonial Period (1822-1920)
32(4)
At Home on the Paranatinga: The Bakairi on Their New Reservation (1920-1958)
36(2)
Teachers and Indian Agents: The Bakairi and Government Development Policies (1958-1980)
38(4)
The Bakairi Divide Again: Pakuera Fissions in the 1980s (1980-1990)
42(2)
Summary
44(3)
Bakairi Households, Fertility, and Mortality
47(26)
Some Methodological Points
48(1)
Village and Household Composition
49(6)
Sex, Menstruation, and Marriage
55(5)
Fertility
60(3)
Nursing, Abortion, and Infanticide
63(2)
Causes of Deaths
65(2)
Population Trends
67(4)
Summary
71(2)
Making a Living, Bakairi Style
73(26)
An Ecological Question
73(3)
The Ecology of the Region
76(6)
Slash-and-Burn Horticulture and Mechanized Agriculture
82(7)
Fishing, Herding, and Hunting
89(6)
The Bakairi and Sources of Cash
95(2)
Summary
97(2)
Living and Working in Groups
99(22)
Daily Social Life
99(7)
Marriage and Families
106(9)
Gender-Based Groups
115(4)
Summary
119(2)
The Bakairi and Their Dancing Masks
121(16)
Excerpts from My Field Diary
121(2)
A ``Ritually Powerful Event''
123(1)
The History of the Masks
124(1)
Kwamba, the Playful, and Yakwigado, the Dignified
124(4)
The Masks Organize the Bakairi Economy
128(2)
The Masks Bind Bakairi Society Together
130(3)
The Masks Reflect a Living Belief System
133(3)
A Final Word about the Masks
136(1)
Leading the Bakairi into the Twenty-first Century
137(20)
Leadership and Ecology
138(5)
Leadership and Socioeconomics
143(6)
What Bakairi Headmen Say
149(5)
Summary
154(3)
The Bakairi: Indians, Ethnic Minority, or Both?
157(28)
The Bakairi in a Global Context
157(10)
Peasants, Small Farmers, and Indians
167(7)
The Bakairi as an Ethnic Minority
174(7)
Dissonance and Identity
181(4)
Appendix: Learning Guide 185(18)
References 203(10)
Index 213

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