Notes
1 The project “Temporal Dialogues” was part of the “Camera as Cultural Critique” research project (2013-2017) financed by the Danish Research Council and headed by Professor Ton Otto at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University.
2 Names of places and people have been altered when deemed necessary in order to protect the identities of the persons discussed in this chapter.
3 Discussions of indigeneity are notoriously complex in the Brazilian Amazon, with more than 300 individual ethnic groups comprising around 900,000 people.
About 270 unique languages have been identified (IWGIA, 2019; Survival International, 2019). Over 60 million Brazilians have at least one native South American ancestor, according to one DNA study (Alves-Silva et al., 2000). A vast number of inhabitants of the Amazon are classified as Caboclos, a term referring to people of mixed indigenous and other origin. For further discussion, see Bartolome (2006); Cardoso de Oliveira (1978); Lima (1999); Lima Ayres (1992); Melatti (1982); Oliveira (1998, 2004, 2008, 2010); Ramos (1998) ; Souza Lima and Barroso-Hoffmann (2002).4 For discussions of acculturation, see Hahn (2008) and Leal (2011), in addition to earlier work by Herskovits (1938), Redfield et al. (1936), and Wolf (1982), to mention a few.
5 I have discussed my approach in detail elsewhere (Vium, 2018, forthcoming).
6 See, for example, Ashley and Plesch (2002) or Ziff and Rao (1997) for an overview of this vast concept.