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Book title
Apapaatai: Rituais de Máscaras no Alto Xingu
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A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
São Paulo: University of São Paulo Press
ISBN of book
978-8531410666
Year of publication
2008
Number of additional authors
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Interdisciplinary
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None
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Non-English
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English abstract
This book is an ethnography of the social relations that the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu establish with their prototypical beings of alterity ― the apapaatai ― via both illnesses and masquerade rituals. The books analyses and describes a sequential structure of ritual actions characterized by a shamanic ontology. The long-term enactment of these rituals consolidates two permanent social categories amongst the Wauja, known as kawoká-mona and nakai wekeho. These relations are institutionalized in masquerade rituals which form the medium for exchanges between different Wauja residential units, a generosity-respect-shame ethos, and Wauja cosmopolitics.
