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

The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Véronique Boyer

Foreword by Peter Wade

147 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-090-9 Hb Published (October 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80539-374-0 eBook

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In the Brazilian Amazon region, cultural “mixture” is expressed in the interaction of city and hinterland, of Indigenous and Black, of religiosity and politics. By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religious interpenetration, and social hierarchy. These Amazonian dynamics are explored through the lens of ethnography, sociology, and history.

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).

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC062000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Indigenous Studies; SOC008050 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Ethnic Studies/Caribbean & Latin American Studies

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Contents

The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Véronique Boyer

Foreword by Peter Wade

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

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The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Véronique Boyer

Foreword by Peter Wade

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Latin America and the Caribbean