The Amazonian Puzzle

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The Amazonian Puzzle is written by Véronique Boyer and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1805390910 (ISBN 10) and 9781805390916 (ISBN 13).

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.