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    Conflict, peace, and social reform in indigenous amazonia
    with Caco Xavier and Elena Welper
    Common Knowledge 22 (1): 43-68. 2016.
    Sociocultural transformations brought about by indigenous leaders in Amazonia have been described as prophetic, millenaristic, or messianic and contrasted with modern reformism. This article addresses new ways of describing processes of change negotiated among indigenous actors. Although these processes are mostly absent from colonial or later sources, they should not remain foreign to ethnology, as the three empirical cases analyzed in this essay show. Methodologically, the essay asks why the r…Read more