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