Amazonia: The Friend, The Enemy, And The Anthropologist - Hostility And Hospitality Among The Parakanã

Amazonia: The Friend, The Enemy, And The Anthropologist - Hostility And Hospitality Among The Parakanã   Carolos Fausto, 2012   Here I investigate a special relationship existing among the Tupi-speaking Parakanã of Amazonia, usually translated as ‘friendship’, and implying expectations of hospitality. Its field of application spans from the closest other (the cross-cousin) to the most distant (the enemy). I show that this kind of relationship is internally structured around an...

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