Aparecida Vilaça is Professor of Social Anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia and Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia. She has come and gone among the Wari' since 1986.
1. Death without Cannibalism
2. The Encounter
3. The Peccary Brother
4. The Houses
5. Escaping Death for the First Time
6. The First White and Other Wars
7. The Stone Axe, the Dream of Paris, and the Bachelor House
8. The Jaguar Mother-in-Law
9. The Wives
10. Escaping Death for the Second Time: The Massacre
11. The Bewitched Bride and Poison in the Houses
12. Meeting the Whites
13. Sexy
14. Talking with the Bishop and the Misunderstandings of Contact
15. The Epidemics
16. Guajará-Mirim, Brazil
17. Meeting the Missionaries
18. In the Land of the Priests
19. Becoming a Believer
20. One Coach Station, Two Airports, and a Titanium Leg
21. When the Water Meets the Clouds and the Fish-Men
22. The Animals Who Are People, the Big Rock, and the Bones of the Dead
23. The Slippery People and the Big Television
24. Making Kin
25. The Farewell
