The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Véronique Boyer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

147 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-090-9 (ISBN)

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In the Brazilian Amazon region, cultural “mixture” is expressed in the interaction of city and hinterland, of Indigenous and Black, of religiosity and politics. By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religious interpenetration, and social hierarchy. These Amazonian dynamics are explored through the lens of ethnography, sociology, and history.

Véronique Boyer is an anthropologist, a research director at the CNRS, and a member of the American Worlds Laboratory. She has been conducting research in the Brazilian Amazon for over 30 years. She is the author of Expansion évangélique et migrations : la renaissance des perdants (Karthala, 2009).

Foreword

Peter Wade

Introduction

Chapter 1. Three Brothers, Three Versions of the Same “Mixture”

Chapter 2. Personal Experiences in the Service of Collective Projects

Chapter 3. Local Populations as Caboclos: The Difficult Naming of a Social Formation

Chapter 4. The Caboclo, a Protean Notion: “Traditional Populations” versus Invisible Beings

Chapter 5. The Implicit Nature of the Caboclo or How to Conceive the “Mixture”

Chapter 6. The “Mixture” and Its “Matrices”: Race through the Prism of Culture

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-090-2 / 1805390902
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-090-9 / 9781805390909
Zustand	Neuware