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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 | |