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Comparative Arawakan histories : rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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