Bakairi Indians of Brazil: Politics, Ecology, and Change

, by Picchi, Debra

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ISBN: 9781577661214 | 1577661214
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/2000

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Beginning Fieldwork

(24)

Arriving at Pakuera

(4)

Preparations for Fieldwork

(10)

Negotiating a Role

(4)

Techniques for Learning about Indians

(5)

Summary

(1)

The Changing World of the Bakairi Indians

(22)

Before We Begin...

(2)

Serendipity and Making Time for History

(1)

The Ancestors Arrive in the New World

(2)

In Search of Slaves and Gold: The Colonial Period and the Bakairi (1500-1822)

(2)

The Bakairi Divide: The Postcolonial Period (1822-1920)

(4)

At Home on the Paranatinga: The Bakairi on Their New Reservation (1920-1958)

(2)

Teachers and Indian Agents: The Bakairi and Government Development Policies (1958-1980)

(4)

The Bakairi Divide Again: Pakuera Fissions in the 1980s (1980-1990)

(2)

Summary

(3)

Bakairi Households, Fertility, and Mortality

(26)

Some Methodological Points

(1)

Village and Household Composition

(6)

Sex, Menstruation, and Marriage

(5)

Fertility

(3)

Nursing, Abortion, and Infanticide

(2)

Causes of Deaths

(2)

Population Trends

(4)

Summary

(2)

Making a Living, Bakairi Style

(26)

An Ecological Question

(3)

The Ecology of the Region

(6)

Slash-and-Burn Horticulture and Mechanized Agriculture

(7)

Fishing, Herding, and Hunting

(6)

The Bakairi and Sources of Cash

(2)

Summary

(2)

Living and Working in Groups

(22)

Daily Social Life

(7)

Marriage and Families

106

(9)

Gender-Based Groups

115

(4)

Summary

119

(2)

The Bakairi and Their Dancing Masks

121

(16)

Excerpts from My Field Diary

121

(2)

A ``Ritually Powerful Event''

123

(1)

The History of the Masks

124

(1)

Kwamba, the Playful, and Yakwigado, the Dignified

124

(4)

The Masks Organize the Bakairi Economy

128

(2)

The Masks Bind Bakairi Society Together

130

(3)

The Masks Reflect a Living Belief System

133

(3)

A Final Word about the Masks

136

(1)

Leading the Bakairi into the Twenty-first Century

137

(20)

Leadership and Ecology

138

(5)

Leadership and Socioeconomics

143

(6)

What Bakairi Headmen Say

149

(5)

Summary

154

(3)

The Bakairi: Indians, Ethnic Minority, or Both?

157

(28)

The Bakairi in a Global Context

157

(10)

Peasants, Small Farmers, and Indians

167

(7)

The Bakairi as an Ethnic Minority

174

(7)

Dissonance and Identity

181

(4)

Appendix: Learning Guide

185

(18)

References

203

(10)

Index

213

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Bakairi Indians of Brazil: Politics, Ecology, and Change

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