Taula de continguts:
  • Part I : Cosmogony, cosmology and chamanism
  • 1. Cosmogony : perspective on the beginning and its legacy
  • 2. Guardians of the cosmos
  • Part II : creation of self and other in myth and history
  • 3. Indians and whites in Baniwa history
  • 4. Music of the ancestors
  • Part III : death and eschatology
  • 5. The time of death
  • 6. Spiritualities of death and birth
  • Part IV : When the missions came
  • 7. From rubber to the gospel
  • 8. Deo iako : the creation of a new generation of believers
  • Conclusion.