Index Adelia (shooting victim), 23, 116-20, 123, 209 nn. 7, 8 agency,9,20,29-31,50, 121,149,153,161, 163, 166, 176, 178, 197 n. 10 aggression, sexual, 127, 137, 210 n. 11. See also maratonas; rape Aichi prefecture, 51, 54, 55 Alagoas, 110 Alcione, 93 Alcoa Aluminum, 90 Amapa, 110 Amnesty International, 121 Anderson, Benedict, 43-44, 155 anomie, 10, 72, 197 n. 7 Aoki, Moacir (interviewee), 60, 183-95 arbitrary behavior: of military, 121; of patrons, 83-85,89, 127; of police, 121 archaeology of knowledge, 50-51 arena of meaning. See meaning; meaningmaking Argentina, dirty war in, 210 n. 2, 211 n. 17 Armstrong, Sharon, 46 assumptions. See axioms, theoretical attorney (hired to prosecute Didi), 117, 119-20, 122, 124 axioms, theoretical, 4-8, 21, 74, 197 n. 8 Azande,6-7, 74 Bahia, 140, 210 n. 6 Bailey, F. G., 17, 20, 82, 107 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 160 Baldwin, James, 166, 179-80 Bali, 150 Bangladesh, 54 Barth, Fredrik, 17 Bateson, Gregory, 3, 20, 29, 31, 153 Beauvoir, Simone de, 154 behaviorism, 197 n. 6. See also psychology; determinism Belem, 205 n. 15 Benedict, Ruth, 17, 29 benge. See poison oracle Bequimao, Manoel, 99 Berger, Peter, 9 Bhaktapur, 71 Bicho-Papao, 86-87 big shots, 139, 142, 211 nn. 20, 21 Billiton Metals, 90 biography, 8, 17, 35, 42, 50, 149, 155, 157. See also singular lives biological capacities and propensities, 8, 74, 154 blank slate, 25, 66, 160-61. See also null model of the person; Proteus blood as idiom of relatedness, 155; in Japan, 58-61, 177, 189-91,203 n. 19 Boas, Franz, 29 Bolyai,Janos, 4 Brasflia, 90, 110, 128, 167 Brazilianness, 177 Brecht, Berthold, 141 Brenneis, Don, 198 n. 16 bricoleur model of the person, 160 bridging theory, 15-18, 28 Iniga, cultural model of, 209 n. 8, 211 n. 21. See also violence, meanings ofin Sao Luis Brownmiller, Susan, 133, 211 n. 14 Buarque, Chico, 24, 129, 140-43 Bulgarians, 156-57 Burma, 82 cabo eleitoral, 83 Cafeteira, Epitacio, 104 Calixto, Edson Damiao, 137-38 Canudos, 139-40 capital punishment, unofficial, 121 capitalism, 23, 69-70, 80, 113, 158, 175 228 Index Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 121, 208 n. 46 Carmen (rape victim), 129-31, 137, 210 n. 10 Carnival, 2, 99 caste system, 64, 82, 208 n. 44 Castelao, 90 Castelo,Joao, 79-80, 89-93,95,96,99-101, 104, 108, 110, 205 nn. 23, 24, 206 nn. 25, 26, 207 nn. 29, 35, 38, 208 n. 39 categories, ethnic, group, and national, 25, 43, 165, 175,184, 192,194 Catholicism, 87-88. See also Christmas; Easter ; Mary (Saint) Chaplin, Charlie, 170 charivari, 133 Chodorow, Nancy, 154-55, 159, 162 choice: conscious, 178; model of the person , 160-61 Christmas, 87 cities, types, 71 clientelism. See patronage and patrons Clifford,James, 151 cognition, 13-14,18-19,22,39,41,51,81, 155; capacities and limits of, 62, 74-75; and metaphor, 201 n. 26 cognitive anthropology, 30-31, 48, 114, 199 n. 5, 201 nn. 26, 29, 210 n. 12 cognitive apartheid, 200 n. 17 cognitive closure, 62 cognitive linguistics and semantics, 30-32, 41-42,81,113-16,123-24 cognitive model of the person, 162 cognitive salience, 22, 25, 42 Cohen, Anthony, 72, 152-53, 161 collectivist society, 10 Collar de Melo, Fernando, 110 common sense, 18, 20, 23-24, 79-89, 93, 108-10, 112-17, 122-23, 191, 192; learning of, 204 n. 10 communication, 15, 29-36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 48, 160, 163, 200 nn. 7, 10, 12, 201 n. 22 conduit model (metaphor), 21, 30-44, 48, 149, 200 nn. 8, 10 conscience collective, 63 consciousness, 8, 10, 21, 29, 31, 50, 62, 68, 81, 152, 157, 161-63, 164; mandan version , 63, 80; model of the person, 16162 , 165; and the predictive inadequacy of social science, 203 n. 20; revolutionary , 82 Conselheiro, Antonio, 139 corruption, 84, 109, 110 counter-hegemony, 113, 123. See also hegemony creativity, 18, 161, 163, 165, 197 n. 10 critical faculties, 81, 163, 165 cultural determinism. See culturalism cultural meaning systems. See cultural models ; meaning systems; schemas cultural models, 14, 34, 36, 46-48, 81, 122, 124, 199 nn. 3, 5, 209 n. 8. See also meaning systems; schemas cultural relativism, 50, 71 Cultural Relativity Effect, 2-4, 14 cultural studies, 197 n. 1 culturalism, 1-2, 7, 16, 21, 25, 40, 64, 66, 74-75, 153, 160, 197 n. 6, 203 n. 2...