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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; NOTE; FOREWORD; NOTE; INTRODUCTION: Mathematics and the Dream We Share of Inner Peace and Solidarity; MAPPING SPACE: COLONIAL MAP-MAKING AND THE FICTION OF TERRA NULLIUS; The Color Red: Naming the Newfound Land "Brasil"; Mapping Time: Before and After the Arrival of the "White Man"; Mapping the Body: The Body is the Guardian of the Guarani self; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; Who are Indigenous Peoples?; The Movement for Indigenous Rights; HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED; Part I: The Xingu Indigenous Park in Central Brazil

Part II: The Land-Without-Evil in Southern BrazilPart III: People and Numbers in Xavante Land, Central Brazil; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; PART I: THE XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK IN CENTRAL BRAZIL; CHAPTER 1: WHEN 1 + 1 ≠ 2: Making Mathematics in Central Brazil; A WORLD OF NUMBERS: THE KAYABI, JURUNA, AND SUYÁ OF THE XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK; CAXIRI : THE OBLIGATION TO GIVE, TO RECEIVE, AND TO RECIPROCATE; BANG-BANG: CAPITALISM, CALCULUS, AND CASTLES OF DREAMS; THE DIAUARUM INDIGENOUS SCHOOL: MATHEMATICS IN PRACTICE; GIFTS, CURVES AND MACAW FEATHERS; FINAL THOUGHTS: MAP-MAKING AS A TOOL FOR LIBERATION

NOTESCHAPTER 2: SHAMANIC MAP-MAKING IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: The Suyá People of the Xingu Indigenous Park; SHAMANIC MAP-MAKING; Shamanic Mapping and Land Jurisprudence Experienced; Human and Animal Hybrids in Amazonian Map-Making; The Suyá People of the Xingu Indigenous Park; Fact, Fiction, and the Language of Jurisprudence; Cosmic Voyagers; Twelve Underwater Creatures of the Suyá Cosmos; Shamanic Map-Making and the Symbolic Order; PART II: THE LAND-WITHOUT-EVIL IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL; CHAPTER 3: TUPI-GUARANI APOCALYPTIC VISIONS OF TIME AND THE BODY; MAPPING TIME, SPACE AND THE BODY

THE GUARANI POPULATION IN BRAZILTHE TERRA INDÍGENA GUARANI DE ITAÓCA; THE SINGER, THE COOK, AND THE TIN CAN GATHERER; THE DOCTOR, THE INDIAN AND THE AMBULANCE DRIVER; TRAVELERS, MISSIONARIES AND WARRIORS; LAND, RECIPROCITY AND NHANDE REKÓ; FINAL REMARKS: TURNING THE FUTURE INTO THE PRESENT; NOTES; CHAPTER 4; MAP-MAKING IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL: Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples' Rights; Mathematics Is Important for the Autonomy of Indigenous Peoples; WHO ARE WE TODAY AND WHERE ARE WE LOCATED? SOURCES OF INFORMATION; Is There Only One Mathematics? Or Are There Different Mathematics?

Xavante Mathematics: "The Two of Us Together"Palikur Mathematics: Geometry Is Everywhere; The Palikur Numerical System; Mathematics, Justice, and Respect for Human Rights; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR CHAPTER 4; NOTES; PART III: PEOPLE AND NUMBERS IN XAVANTE LAND, CENTRAL BRAZIL; CHAPTER 5: THE TWO OF US TOGETHER: Xavante Mathematics in Central Brazil Today; THE XAVANTE WARRIORS OF THE BRAZILIAN CERRADO; BACK TO THE RESERVA INDÍGENA KULUENE IN 1978; THE XAVANTE IN HISTORY: MAPPING TIME, SPACE, AND THE BODY; THE XAVANTE SOCIONUMERICAL SYSTEM; The Expropriation of the Xavante Socionumerical System

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