The Amazonian Puzzle

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