Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia - Carlos (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) Fausto - Bog

This book is an ethnographic study of the Parakana, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, who inhabit the Xingu-Tocantins interfluve in the state of Para, Brazil. Carlos Fausto analyzes the relationship between warfare and shamanism in Parakana society from the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century.