List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course
Part 1. Neither Myth nor History
1. “Like the Ancient Ones”: The Intercultural Dynamics of Personal Biography in Amazonian Ecuador
Casey High
2. “This Happened to Me”: Exemplary Personal Experience Narratives among the Piro (Yine) People of Peruvian Amazonia
Peter Gow
3. Memories of the Ucayali: The Asháninka Story Line
Hanne Veber
Part 2. Persons within Persons
4. Multiple Biographies: Shamanism and Personhood among the Marubo of Western Amazonia
Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
5. The End of Me: The Role of Destiny in Mapuche Narratives of the Person
Magnus Course
Part 3. Creating Sociality across Divides
6. Relieving Apprehension and Limiting Risk: The Rituals of Extraordinary Communicative Contacts
Ellen B. Basso
7. The Lascivious Life of Gabriel Gentil
Oscar Calavia Sáez
Part 4. Hybridity, Dissonance, and Reflection
8. An Indigenous Capitão’s Reflections on a Mid-Twentieth-Century Brazilian “Middle Ground”
Suzanne Oakdale
9. Fluid Subjectivity: Reflections on Self and Alternative Futures in the Autobiographical Narrative of Hiparidi Top’tiro, a Xavante Transcultural Leader
Laura R. Graham
10. Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil)
Bruna Franchetto
Contributors
Index
