| Description |
xx, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Cosmology and Society. 1. The Cannibal Gods. 2. Living with the Arawete. 3. The Tupi-Guarani Landscape -- 2. Approaching the Arawete. 1. The Country. 2. The Regional Context. 3. The People. 4. History -- 3. The Forsaken Ones. 1. The Separation. 2. Who's Who in the Cosmos. 3. Gods and Spirits. 4. Tupi-Guarani Cosmologies -- 4. The Frame of Life. 1. The Year. 2. The Village. 3. A Day in the Dry Season. 4. Difficulty at the Beginning -- 5. Nurture and Supernature. 1. Mild Beer. 2. Strong Beer. 3. Meat and Honey. 4. The Alimentary Forms of the Religious Life -- 6. Familiar Terms. 1. The Mixture. 2. Names. 3. Relatives. 4. Eluding Affinity -- 7. Birth, and Copulation, and Death. 1. The Facts of Life. 2. Passions. 3. Death. 4. Only the Bones Forget -- 8. Alien Words. 1. The Marriage of Heaven and Earth. 2. Shamanism and the Music of the Gods. 3. Killers and the Music of Enemies. 4. The Enemy's Point of View -- 9. Beings of Becoming. 1. The Cannibal Cogito |
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2. Spiritual Dualism and Cosmological Triads. 3. My Brother-in-law the Jaguar -- 10. The Anti-Narcissus. 1. Vengeance and Sacrifice. 2. A Rare Bird. 3. On Dialogical Anthropophagy. 4. The Anti-Social Contract. 5. Eaters of Raw Flesh -- Appendix 1-A: Arawete Villages in 1981-83 -- Appendix 1-B: List of Historical Arawete Villages -- Appendix 2-A: Arawete Population -- Appendix 2-B: Genealogies -- Appendix 3: Botanical and Zoological Terms (English, Portuguese, Arawete, Latin) -- Appendix 4: Glossary of Arawete Terms |
| Summary |
"Translated and revised version of author's 1986 doctoral thesis, one of the most influential monographs in Brazilian ethnology of the last decade. Describes and interprets cosmology and social philosophy of the Araweté, a Tupi-Guarani people of eastern Amazonia, from the perspective of concepts of the person, death and eschatology, divinity, and systems of shamanism and warfare. The theme of divine cannibalism is treated as part of the complex of Tupi-Guarani ritual anthropophagy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
| Analysis |
Brazil |
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Shamanism |
| Notes |
Translation of: Araweté |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-391) and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: Araweté: os deuses canibais |
| Subject |
Araweté Indians.
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Cannibalism -- Brazil.
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Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Religion.
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Tupi Indians -- Religion.
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| Reading List |
ASS203 prescribed text 2024
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| LC no. |
91031969 |
| ISBN |
0226858014 (alk. paper) |
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0226858022 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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