Suzanne Oakdale
Biographic Data
| ID | 136145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Oakdale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Oakdale |
| SIGNATURE | OAKDALE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6508-0676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conversation with Severin Fowles
Trickster Tales: The Various Anthropologies of Robert Brightman
Conversation with Jada Benn Torres
Gluten-free entrepreneurship and the management of celiac
Celiac, an incurable autoimmune disease, affecting roughly 1% of the US population, requires an unusually high level of vigilance with respect to diet and food preparation in order to keep foods and the environments of their preparation gluten-free. Compliance with this strict regimen, while alleviating many long-term side effects such as cancer and osteoporosis, often leads to other problems such as social anxiety, depression, and eating disorde…
Conversation with Shannon Speed on 'Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women: Rethinking Human Rights and Tribal Sovereignty
Ontological transformations: The Kawaiwete's shifting relations with spirits as seen through changing ideas of conception
Drawing on the insights of the ontological turn, this article explores how human and nonhuman social relations have changed over a thirty-year period for a community of Tupian Kawaiwete people in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Territory. Changes in human-spirit relations are discussed through a focus on people's changing understandings of human conception and the relative importance and roles of maternal and paternal substances, shamanic practitioners…
Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia
"Conversation with John Lucy on "The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought
The Editor's Thanks
Editor’s Opening Comments
Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects
In this lecture Dr. Suzanne Oakdale will discuss her recent book, Amazonian Cosmopolitans, focused on two Brazilian indigenous leaders’ autobiographical accounts. This work is an attempt to appreciate a distinctive form of historical consciousness, which, in keeping with broader lowland patterns, is focused on bodily states. She also connects these leaders’ small Amazonian group (the Tupian-speaking Kawaiwete) to national and world events. Both m…
Speaking through animals: Kawaiwete shamanism and metalingual play
The Diversity of the Modern in Amazonia
"Brazil's "March to the West: "Memories of an Indigenous Shaman and other "Moderns
The Amazon forest and savanna became central for the realization of Brazilian modernity in the 1940s when aviation networks were created by a government expedition to open up the western territories. Indigenous peoples played a number of roles in this state project. Through a focus on the autobiographical account of an indigenous shaman working as a team member and the memoirs of the expedition leaders, I contrast how indigenous peoples were scri…
Waud Hocking Kracke
Introduction: Issue in Honor of Terence S. Turner
Terence Turner was known for his committed long-term ethnography and advocacy work with the Kayapo as well as for his innovative anthropological theory: his work on value, his approaches to the body and adornment, kinship, political organization, film and self representation, indigenous engagement with environmentalism, ritual, and the production of social consciousness among other topics.As Steve Sangren and Dominic Boyer ( 2006) have observed, …
The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa by Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy (review)
The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood. Fernando Santos-Granero
The commensality of 'contact', 'pacification', and inter-ethnic relations in the Amazon: Kayabi autobiographical perspectives
This article builds upon research that calls for seeing the historically specific processes often labelled as 'contact' and 'acculturation' in Amazonia from indigenous perspectives, perspectives that focus on the centrality of the body and bodily transformations. Through a discussion of two Tupi-speaking Kayabi men's accounts of their own and their relatives' relations with non-indigenous Brazilians over the course of the twentieth century, I arg…
Anchoring "The Symbolic Economy of Alterity" with Autobiography
This essay addresses the usefulness of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's concept of the "symbolic economy of alterity" for understanding the subjectively meaningful historical details of individual lives. My focus is the autobiographical narratives of two Kayabi men from central Brazil whose lives have spanned the twentieth century. Their accounts show that these men do, in fact, speak of identity, with kin as being fashioned gradually out from alteri…
Society for Psychological Anthropology
The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Joanna Overing , Alan Passes
The culture-conscious Brazilian Indian: Representing and reworking Indianness in Kayabi political discourse
In this article, I examine a Brazilian indigenous people's self-conscious use of the ideas of "culture" and "Indian ethnicity." Whereas analysts usually discuss indigenous use of these concepts in the context of high-profile national or transnational intercultural events, I look at how retrospective accounts of participation in such events are woven into local political discourse. I focus on how two Amazonian leaders represent their participation…
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society:Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Beth A. Conklin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 317 pp
The culture-conscious Brazilian Indian: Representing and reworking Indianness in Kayabi political discourse
In this article, I examine a Brazilian indigenous people's self-conscious use of the ideas of "culture" and "Indian ethnicity." Whereas analysts usually discuss indigenous use of these concepts in the context of high-profile national or transnational intercultural events, I look at how retrospective accounts of participation in such events are woven into local political discourse. I focus on how two Amazonian leaders represent their participation…
The commensality of 'contact', 'pacification', and inter-ethnic relations in the Amazon: Kayabi autobiographical perspectives
This article builds upon research that calls for seeing the historically specific processes often labelled as 'contact' and 'acculturation' in Amazonia from indigenous perspectives, perspectives that focus on the centrality of the body and bodily transformations. Through a discussion of two Tupi-speaking Kayabi men's accounts of their own and their relatives' relations with non-indigenous Brazilians over the course of the twentieth century, I arg…
History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community
This article explores a mode of historical consciousness constructed through mortuary rituals among a Brazilian Amazonian people. Paradoxically,the process of forgetting is argued to be crucial for this type of historical consciousness. The dual focus on historical consciousness and mortuary ritual shows how culturally specific notions of personhood, particularly those relating to life, death, and agency, are crucial for an adequate"ethno-ethnohi…
The Diversity of the Modern in Amazonia
Creating a Continuity between Self and Other: First-Person Narration in an Amazonian Ritual Context
This article argues that culturally specific genres of first-person narration as they are found within social life offer a privileged window on a dimension of the self: the extent to which in certain circumstances self and other have fixed boundaries or can become merged. My focus is a ritual genre of first-person narration sung by the Kayabi, a Tupi-Guarani-speaking people of central Brazil. In this genre, the experiences of past generations bec…
Speaking through animals: Kawaiwete shamanism and metalingual play
Ontological transformations: The Kawaiwete's shifting relations with spirits as seen through changing ideas of conception
Drawing on the insights of the ontological turn, this article explores how human and nonhuman social relations have changed over a thirty-year period for a community of Tupian Kawaiwete people in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Territory. Changes in human-spirit relations are discussed through a focus on people's changing understandings of human conception and the relative importance and roles of maternal and paternal substances, shamanic practitioners…
"Conversation with John Lucy on "The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Beth A. Conklin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 317 pp
The Power of Cross-Cultural Metadiscourse
Jonathan D. Hill. Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. xix. 245 pp
Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela. Pei-Lin Yu
History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community
This article explores a mode of historical consciousness constructed through mortuary rituals among a Brazilian Amazonian people. Paradoxically,the process of forgetting is argued to be crucial for this type of historical consciousness. The dual focus on historical consciousness and mortuary ritual shows how culturally specific notions of personhood, particularly those relating to life, death, and agency, are crucial for an adequate"ethno-ethnohi…
Creating a Continuity between Self and Other: First-Person Narration in an Amazonian Ritual Context
This article argues that culturally specific genres of first-person narration as they are found within social life offer a privileged window on a dimension of the self: the extent to which in certain circumstances self and other have fixed boundaries or can become merged. My focus is a ritual genre of first-person narration sung by the Kayabi, a Tupi-Guarani-speaking people of central Brazil. In this genre, the experiences of past generations bec…
The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Joanna Overing , Alan Passes
The culture-conscious Brazilian Indian: Representing and reworking Indianness in Kayabi political discourse
In this article, I examine a Brazilian indigenous people's self-conscious use of the ideas of "culture" and "Indian ethnicity." Whereas analysts usually discuss indigenous use of these concepts in the context of high-profile national or transnational intercultural events, I look at how retrospective accounts of participation in such events are woven into local political discourse. I focus on how two Amazonian leaders represent their participation…
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society:Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Beth A. Conklin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 317 pp
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Anchoring "The Symbolic Economy of Alterity" with Autobiography
This essay addresses the usefulness of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's concept of the "symbolic economy of alterity" for understanding the subjectively meaningful historical details of individual lives. My focus is the autobiographical narratives of two Kayabi men from central Brazil whose lives have spanned the twentieth century. Their accounts show that these men do, in fact, speak of identity, with kin as being fashioned gradually out from alteri…
The commensality of 'contact', 'pacification', and inter-ethnic relations in the Amazon: Kayabi autobiographical perspectives
This article builds upon research that calls for seeing the historically specific processes often labelled as 'contact' and 'acculturation' in Amazonia from indigenous perspectives, perspectives that focus on the centrality of the body and bodily transformations. Through a discussion of two Tupi-speaking Kayabi men's accounts of their own and their relatives' relations with non-indigenous Brazilians over the course of the twentieth century, I arg…
The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood. Fernando Santos-Granero
The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa by Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy (review)
Introduction: Issue in Honor of Terence S. Turner
Terence Turner was known for his committed long-term ethnography and advocacy work with the Kayapo as well as for his innovative anthropological theory: his work on value, his approaches to the body and adornment, kinship, political organization, film and self representation, indigenous engagement with environmentalism, ritual, and the production of social consciousness among other topics.As Steve Sangren and Dominic Boyer ( 2006) have observed, …
Waud Hocking Kracke
Speaking through animals: Kawaiwete shamanism and metalingual play
The Diversity of the Modern in Amazonia
"Brazil's "March to the West: "Memories of an Indigenous Shaman and other "Moderns
The Amazon forest and savanna became central for the realization of Brazilian modernity in the 1940s when aviation networks were created by a government expedition to open up the western territories. Indigenous peoples played a number of roles in this state project. Through a focus on the autobiographical account of an indigenous shaman working as a team member and the memoirs of the expedition leaders, I contrast how indigenous peoples were scri…
Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects
In this lecture Dr. Suzanne Oakdale will discuss her recent book, Amazonian Cosmopolitans, focused on two Brazilian indigenous leaders’ autobiographical accounts. This work is an attempt to appreciate a distinctive form of historical consciousness, which, in keeping with broader lowland patterns, is focused on bodily states. She also connects these leaders’ small Amazonian group (the Tupian-speaking Kawaiwete) to national and world events. Both m…
Editor’s Opening Comments
Ontological transformations: The Kawaiwete's shifting relations with spirits as seen through changing ideas of conception
Drawing on the insights of the ontological turn, this article explores how human and nonhuman social relations have changed over a thirty-year period for a community of Tupian Kawaiwete people in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Territory. Changes in human-spirit relations are discussed through a focus on people's changing understandings of human conception and the relative importance and roles of maternal and paternal substances, shamanic practitioners…
Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia
"Conversation with John Lucy on "The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought
The Editor's Thanks
Conversation with Jada Benn Torres
Sociology (18 works) · History (15 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (13 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Amazon rainforest (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works)