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Indians of South America --- Folklore --- Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) --- Parque Indígena do Xingu (Brazil) --- Xingu National Park (Brazil) --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Brazil

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First published in Paris in 1897, this book describes the expedition to the Xingú River in the Amazon region of Brazil by the French scientist and explorer Henri Coudreau. Coudreau spent five months from May to October 1896 travelling down the Xingú by boat, beginning at the river's southern origin at Vitória and finishing in Pará, where it joins the Amazon. He carried out the most detailed explorations of the region up to that time, and is deservedly regarded as one of the great early anthropologists of the Amazon. This book describes the region's distinct eco-system and its warrior-like indigenous peoples. The book, which Coudreau wrote in less than a month, is characteristic of his strongly opinionated writing. It contains 68 illustrations and a map of the Xingú River.

Xingu River (Brazil) --- Pará (Brazil : State) --- Description and travel. --- Grão-Pará (Brazil : State) --- Rio Xingu (Brazil)

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Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology.

Indians of South America --- Chiefdoms --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- History. --- First contact with Europeans --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnology --- Xingu River Valley (Brazil) --- Xingu Valley (Brazil) --- Colonization. --- First contact with other peoples

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Indians of South America --- Rites and ceremonies --- Pictorial works --- Social life and customs --- Xingú River Valley (Brazil) --- Pictorial works.

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"I Foresee My Life is a study of the ritual performances of the Kayabi, a Brazilian indigenous people, during the 1990s. Kayabi rituals are distinct in that they center on the autobiographical narratives of living people. Suzanne Oakdale discusses these autobiographical performances in the context of shamanic cures, mortuary rites, and political oratory. In each ritual, leaders describe how some of the dramatic environmental, economic, and political changes taking place in the Amazon have affected them. For example, the Kayabi have moved from a heavily colonized area to a reservation and as a result have had to address different facets of Indian identity, new forms of commodity consumption, residence patterns, and leadership." "As they narrate their lives in these rituals, leaders also give other participants ways to address some of the pressing issues in their own lives. Special emphasis is given to the emotional effects of narrative performances and how these accounts move people to identify with others, compel them to act in appropriate ways, or assuage their grief over a lost loved one. Oakdale analyzes autobiographical performances using insights from studies on ritual, life history, and linguistic anthropology to better understand Kayabi notions of self and person and the role these narrative expressions play in their social life."--BOOK JACKET.

Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Shamans --- Autobiography --- Kayabi Indians --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Caiabi Indians --- Kajabi Indians --- Maquiri Indians --- Paru Indians --- Parua Indians --- Indians of South America --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Medicine-man --- Medicine men --- Shaman --- Healers --- Mediums --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Social life and customs. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil) --- Parque Indígena do Xingu (Brazil) --- Xingu National Park (Brazil) --- Cajabis Indians --- Cajahis Indians --- Cayabi Indians --- Kaiabi Indians --- Kawaiwete Indians