Indigenous people comprise only 0.2 per cent of Brazil's population, yet occupy a prominent role in the nation's consciousness. In this text, Ramos explains this irony, exploring Indian and non-Indian attitudes about interethnic relations.
This text provides an anthropological account of the Yanomami and their social organisation, kinship and marriage, moving from the microcosm of individual experience to the broader sociological trends that engulf them. It draws on extensive fieldwork among the Sanuma.
