The upper Orinoco Yanomami and their context -- Particularizing the Upper Orinoco health system -- Epidemic diseases, Criollos, and the morality of being human -- Becoming Napë and the Napë transformational axis -- Making kin, making society, and Napë potential affinity -- Being and performing Napë and Yanomami -- Doctors and Shamans -- Two meetings and a protest -- Changing tides and mixed feelings