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Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia (The Cultures and Practice of Violence) by Aparecida Vilaça (editor); Neil L. Whitehead (editor); Jo Ellen Fair (editor); Leigh A. Payne (editor); David Rodgers (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, near the border with Bolivia, a group of Wari' Indians experienced their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and agents from the national government's Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari' announced, 'We touched their bodies!' The whites reported to their people that 'The region's most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!' First published in Brazil, "Strange Enemies" is a vivid ethnography describing the first encounters between two groups with radically different worldviews. "Aparecida Vilaca" focuses on the process of pacification conducted by Brazilian government agents, U.S. Protestant missionaries, and representatives of the Catholic Church between 1956 and 1969. During the 1940s and 1950s, white rubber-tappers interested in Wari' lands raided their villages, shooting and killing sleeping victims. Those massacres prompted the Wari' to initiate a period of intense retaliatory warfare. The national government and religious organizations stepped in, seeking to pacify the Indians. Vilaca was able to interview both Wari' and non-Wari' people who participated in these eve
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- Author
- Aparecida Vilaça (editor); Neil L. Whitehead (editor); Jo Ellen Fair (editor); Leigh A. Payne (editor); David Rodgers (editor)
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613065070
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Social Science
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