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Index Achagua, 12, 13, 58, 59, 60, 62; and quirípa trade, 61, 68 adultery, 33, 34, 64 adzanéni, 6, 9 affines, and violence in narratives, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25–29, 40–41, 48–52, 54–56, 152 agriculture: among Wakuénai, 9–10 Áh-han dialect, 9 Aiarí River, 4, 6, 35; Hohódeni living on, 63 airplane, 51 alcabalas, 145 alcoholic drinks: and pákamarántakan, 101; as part of ceremonies, 112 alíra tobacco, 71, 76 alligator, 32; and Made-from-Bone’s quest for fire, 80, 81; and origin of cooking fire, 72 Ámaru. See First-Woman Ámaru (lake), 131, 132 Amazonas, 15; and indigenous political power, 17, 156; and statehood, 147, 156 Amazon River, 1, 5; in mythic narratives, 114; and postcolonial changes, 13 Amazonia, 61–62 anaconda: born from human mother, 36; in form of canoes, 66, 68; as historical metaphor, 65–68; meanings in indigenous cosmology, 63, 66, 166n3; multiheaded, 152; as a person, 143 Anaconda-Child (Uliámaliéni), 36–37, 64, 66 Anaconda-Person, 33–37; Arapaço version of myth of, 67–68 ancestors, mythic, and modern shamanism , 150 Anderson, Benedict, 150 Andes, 59 anigua worms, 48, 51, 52 animals: in form of humans, 37, 42, 73, 85, 131; in form of inanimate objects, 152; in form of plants, 80; humans in form of, 113; indistinct from humans, 20 ants, 32; leaf-cutter, 39, 40, 52, 85, 86, 142; origin of leaf-cutter, 27 anus, of the sloth, 79 Arapaço, 67, 68 Arawakan speakers, xiv, 1, 3, 58–59, 60; and exchange of shell necklaces, 57, 58; geographical locations of, 1–3, 5; in late colonial period, 61–62, 66; and magical state, 155–56; and metaphor of anaconda, 66–67 arrows, 43, 44, 49, 52, 53; poisoned, 113, 129 ashes, 47; white, 54, 55 Atabapo River, 3, 61 Atacavi River, 3 ataraya fishing net, 28, 44, 89 awarána (wasp), 50 back, groove in, 74, 89 bag: páatu, 77–78, 79, 166n1; travel, 132, 133 bagre sapo (catfish), 37 balsa wood: for catfish trumpets, 100; for effigies, 122 Baniwa, 8, 14, 15, 163n5; and Catfish Trumpet Festival, 100, 106; and ties with Wakuénai, 93 Barasana, 66 barbasco poison, 28, 44, 49 Baré, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 61 Barrakuá, in mythic narrative, 134 baskets, 82, 119, 168n5 186 INDEX bathing, 41, 75, 76, 80, 120 Bat-People, 21, 22, 37–38 beads, 57, 58 beer, 86–87, 125, 138; manioc, 114, 119, 132, 133 bees, 136–37, 141 bee spirits (Kuwáiñai), 115, 116 beeswax, 115 Bird-Person (Dókutsiári), 33, 34 birds, 39, 40–41, 51, 71, 78, 90; baby (awádu), 52; dzáaliro, 35; giant, 53; hádzee, 56; pauhwí pedrera, 78; seen by author in study region, 97–98; wanáli, 35 birth: in mythic narratives, 36, 64; rituals of, 165n3 birth canal, creation of, 110, 117 blood, 28, 54–55, 117; from rain, 30, 49–50, 122 blood of Duiménai (honey), 28, 165n1 blowgun, 34, 52, 53, 54, 56 blowing, with a feather, 113 blowing hallucinogenic snuff, 134, 135 blowing tobacco smoke, 51, 76, 126, 168n13; to avert magic, 78; for the dead, 53; over food, 119, 120, 122, 123, 168n6; to induce sleep, 54; to revive a person, 29, 30, 55, 118, 129; and sacred food, 95, 112, 124, 125, 132, 165n3; to transform objects, 46 Boape-Pariana-Maniva, 155 bocachico fish, 10, 11, 129; dances of, 11, 85–87 bones, 25, 26, 29, 30, 150 bonfire, 126 bow, 52, 53 bowl, cooking, 40–41 Brazil, 13, 35 butterflies, 51 cacao juice, as medicine, 140 cajaro (catfish), 41 camahái poison, 29, 31 Camico, Venancio, 14–15 canoes, 45–46, 86, 113, 131, 145, 146; as anacondas, 66, 68; drinks placed in, 84, 85; dugout, 143; made of beeswax, 115; named, 139; of women, 130 Caño Dzukuáli (Curved Stream), 130; mythical origin of, 117 Caño San Miguel, 96, 98 Caño Tigre, 85 Caracas, 98–99; in mythic narratives, 131, 141 Carib speakers, 58, 59, 60, 61 cars, 143 casabe bread, 80 cascaradora, 45 cashew fruits, as medicine, 140 Casiquiare River region, 3, 5, 10, 61, 85; and rubber boom, 15; and slave trade, 60 catfish, 41, 45, 49; bagre choro, 40; human transformed into, 37, 65; as sacred food, 121; trumpets named after, 11, 95, 166n9 Catfish Trumpet Festival of 1981, 92–107; ethnic groups attending, 100; preparations for, 96–100...

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