Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Part I Indigenous Perceptions of Leadership
6. 1 “Becoming Funai” 45
7. 2 Variabilities of Indigenous Leadership 75
8. 3 The Rise of the Egalityrant (Egalitarian Tyrant) in Peruvian Amazonia 107
9. 4 Guarani Cosmopolitics in the World of Paper 127
10. Part II Changing Styles of Leadership in Lowland South America
11. 5 The Young Kayapó Movement (Movimento Mebengokre Nyre) among the Mentuktire Kayapó 155
12. 6 “All Together” 169
13. 7 Leadership in Movement 197
14. 8 Gender and Political Leadership 215
15. Part III Amazonian Indigenous Actors in State Politics
16. 9 “The Colonos Come in Like Termites to Take Our Land” 239
17. 10 “All This Is Part of My Movement” 259
18. 11 Shifting Leadership Legitimation 285
19. Contributors 303
20. Index 307