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Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects

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Suzanne Oakdale
2024
Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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Amazonian Cosmopolitans explores how two Kawaiwete Indigenous leaders, Sabino and Prepori, lived in a much more complicated and globally connected Amazon than most people realize.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright Page

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-xiv

Introduction

pp. 1-22

1. Shamanic Cosmopolitanism

pp. 23-40

2. The Positivist Cosmopolitanism of the Brazilian Interior

pp. 41-68

3. Labor and Maturity in the Era of Assimilation

pp. 69-94

4. Becoming the Brazilian "Indian" during the Era of President Vargas, 1930-1945

pp. 95-114

5. Working on the "March to the West"

pp. 115-138

6. The Utopian Cosmopolitanism of the Xingu

pp. 139-170

7. Nostalgia and Disgust

pp. 171-198

Conclusion

pp. 199-204

Source Acknowledgments

pp. 205-206

Notes

pp. 207-218

References

pp. 219-236

Index

pp. 237-247
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