Forever Working on the Whiteman: Agency, Vulnerability, and Hope in the Interstices of an Amazonian Frontier.
This article presents a case study of middle ground between an indigenous community in southern Guyana and a group of itinerant miners from Brazil whose boss was perceived as a whiteman. Central to the emergence of this middle ground was each party's sense of creative agency in relation to the other...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 266 - 283 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2020
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