Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
A note on Trio and Wayana orthography
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Maps

Introduction

• Guianan Leadership
• Guiana
• The Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo
• Fieldwork and its Limitations
• Structure and Scope of the Book

Chapter 1. Making Trio and Other Peoples

• Ethnogenesis
• A Theory of Continuity
• Substance and Filiation
• Telling Stories, Making Groups
• Time, History and Identity
• ‘The Trio’ as a Group
• Ethnogenesis and Alterity
• Missionisation and Ethnicity: The Contact of the Akuriyo
• Slavery and Identity
• Marriage and Manioc
• Strategic Ethnicity
• Leadership Inside and Out

Chapter 2. Houses and In-Laws

• Leadership, Inequality and the House
• Houses and Housebuilders
• The House as Artefact
• The Collective House
• Scale and the Household
• Consanguinity, Affinity and the ‘Atom of Politics’
• Symmetry and Asymmetry
• Leadership and the House as Idea

Chapter 3. Trade, Money and Influence

• Economic Influence
• Exchange and Trade
• Trading with Maroons
• Money
• The Politics of Air Travel
• Airborne Evangelism
• The City, Prestige and Mobility
• Air Entrepreneurship
• Public Speaking
• Literacy
• Metaphysical Communication
• Bible Economy
• Leadership and Influence Beyond Consanguinity

Chapter 4. Music and Ritual Capacities

• Structured Sound
• Tortoiseshell Pipes: Individual and Collective
• Rattles and Shamanism: Percussion and Harmony
• Capacity, Blowing and Song
• The Music of the Other
• Speech as Music
• Ceremonial Dialogue
• Music and Leadership
• Heterophony
• Music and Difference

Chapter 5. Owning Places and Persons

• The Language of Possession
• Moveable Wealth
• The Value of Land
• Names and Places
• Gender Asymmetry and Women as Property
• Ownership, Wealth and Influence

Conclusion: Society Transcends the State

Glossary
Appendix: Trio Relationship Terminology
References