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Strange EnemiesIndigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia\nAuthor(s): Aparecida Vilaa, David Rodgers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822345732, 978-0822345732\nSynopsis\nIn 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondnia, a group of Wari Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari announced, We touched their bodies! Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that the regions most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase! Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different [url] the 1940s and 1950s, white rubber tappers invading the Wari lands raided the native villages, shooting and killing their victims as they slept. These massacres prompted the Wari to initi.