Time and memory in indigenous Amazonia : anthropological perspectives /

These groundbreaking essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple argument--that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic. Change and transformation define the indigenous history of the Amazon from before European conquest to the present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fausto, Carlos, Heckenberger, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007.
Temas:
Indian philosophy > Amazon River Region > History.
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Psychology.
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Social life and customs.
Time > Social aspects > Amazon River Region.
Memory > Social aspects > Amazon River Region.
Social change > Amazon River Region.
HISTORY.
Indian philosophy
Indians of South America > Psychology
Indians of South America > Social life and customs
Memory > Social aspects
Social change
Time > Social aspects
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Amérindien (peuple) > temps (durée) > conception > Amazonie > études diverses.
Amérindien (peuple) > changement (sociologie) > conception du monde > Amazonie > études diverses.
Amazon River Region
Amazonastiefland
Indianer.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Indigenous history and the history of the "Indians" / Carlos Fausto and Michael Heckenberger
  • Appropriating transformations
  • Time is disease, suffering, and oblivion : Yanesha historicity and the struggle against temporality / Fernando Santos-Granero
  • If God were a jaguar : cannibalism and Christianity among the Guarani (16th-20th centuries) / Carlos Fausto
  • Animal masters and the ecological embedding of history among the Ávila Runa of Ecuador / Eduardo O. Kohn
  • Sick of history : contrasting regimes of historicity in the Upper Amazon / Anne-Christine Taylor
  • Cultural change as body metamorphosis / Aparecida Vilaça
  • "Ex-Cocama": transforming identities in Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow
  • Faces of the past : just how "ancestral" are Matis "ancestor spirit" masks? / Philippe Erikson
  • Bones, flutes, and the dead : memory and funerary treatments in Amazonia / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil
  • Xinguano heroes, ancestors, and others : materializing the past in chiefly bodies, ritual space, and landscape / Michael Heckenberger.

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