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| Illustrations and Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on Orthography | |
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| Trekking in Amazonia | |
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| Cross-Cultural Generalizations About Amazonian Societies | |
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| Amazon Trekkers | |
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| The Upper Amazon from Omagua Expansion to Zaparo Collapse | |
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| Historiography and Isolationist People | |
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| The Presence of Tupian People in the Upper Amazon | |
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| The Napo-Curaray Geopolitical Landscape at the Time of Correrias | |
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| The Fate of Zaparoan Peoples During the Rubber Era | |
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| Recorded Huaorani History | |
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| Historical Isolation, Adaptation, and Continuity | |
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| The Time and Space of Huaorani Nomadic Isolationism | |
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| Knowing, Remembering, and Representing the Past | |
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| Primeval Predation and Survival | |
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| Anger and Homicide | |
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| Warfare, History, and Kinship | |
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| From the Victim's Point of View | |
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| Harvesting the Forest's Natural Abundance | |
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| An Economy of Procurement | |
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| Chonta Palm Groves, Fructification, and Forest Bounty | |
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| The Giving Environment | |
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| Coming Back to the Longhouse | |
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| The Longhouse: To Belong and to Reside | |
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| The Sharing Economy | |
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| Affinal Pairing and Maternal Multiplicity | |
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| The Dialectics of Incorporation and Separation | |
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| A Gap in the Canopy | |
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| Eeme Festivals: Ceremonial Increase and Marriage Alliance | |
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| Ahuene: The Tree-Couple | |
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| The Human Birds | |
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| Birds and Wild Boars | |
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| Tying the Knot | |
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| Ceremonial Drinking, "Wild" Marriages, and Social Distance | |
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| The Asymmetry Between Hosts and Guests | |
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| Alliance and Residence: A Comparative Perspective | |
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| Schools in the Rain Forest | |
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| Schooling, Identity, and Cultural Politics | |
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| Legacy of the Summer Institute of Linguistics | |
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| We Want Schools to Become Civilized | |
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| Civilized Bodies in the Making | |
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| Schools as Public Centers of Wealth | |
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| Trekking Away from School Villages | |
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| The Naturalization of Impersonal Donors | |
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| Prey at the Center | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |