Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART 1: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES
  • 1. The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America
  • 2. Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization
  • 3. Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving Knowledge of Arawak
  • PART 2: HIERARCHY, DIASPORA, AND NEW IDENTITIES
  • 4. Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative
  • 5. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace-Builders of the Bolivian Savanna6. Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia
  • 7. Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa'ikwene (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Center and on the Edge at the Same Time
  • PART 3: POWER, CULTISM, AND SACRED LANDSCAPES
  • 8. A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion
  • 9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia
  • 11. Porphetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon
  • References Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index