Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia : reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory /

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"A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in Indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hornborg, Alf, Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2011.
Temas:
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Ethnic identity.
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Languages.
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Antiquities.
Anthropological linguistics > Amazon River Region.
Ethnicity > Amazon River Region.
Ethnohistory > Amazon River Region.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Anthropological linguistics
Antiquities
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Ethnohistory
Indians of South America > Antiquities
Indians of South America > Ethnic identity
Indians of South America > Languages
Amazon River Region > Ethnic relations.
Amazon River Region > Antiquities.
Amazon River Region
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia; Part I: Archaeology; 2. Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in the Pre-colonial Central Amazon; 3. Deep History, Cultural Identities, and Ethnogenesis in the Southern Amazon; 4. Deep Time, Big Space; 5. Generic Pots and Generic Indians; 6. An Attempt to Understand Panoan Ethnogenesis in Relation to Long-Term Patterns and Transformation sof Regional Interaction in Western Amazonia; Part II: Linguistics; 7. Amazonian Ritual Communication in Relation to Multilingual Social Networks.
  • 8. The Spread of the Arawakan Languages9. Comparative Arawak Linguistics; 10. Linguistic Diversity Zones and Cartographic Modeling; 11. Nested Identities in the Southern Guyana-Surinam Corner; 12. Change, Contact, and Ethnogenesis in Northern Quechua; Part III: Ethnohistory; 13. Sacred Landscapes as Environmental Histories in Lowland South America; 14. Constancy in Continuity? Native Oral History, Iconography, and Earthworks on the Upper Purús River; 15. Ethnogenesis at the Interface of the Andes and the Amazon; 16. Ethnogenesis and Interculturality in the "Forest of Canelos."
  • 17. Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics18. Afterword; Contributors; Index.

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