Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia /

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Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and Indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: High, Casey, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Subjects:
Huao Indians > Ecuador > Ethnic identity.
Huao Indians > Ecuador > Social conditions.
Huao Indians > Wars.
Violence > Ecuador.
Waorani > Identité ethnique > Équateur.
Waorani > Équateur > Conditions sociales.
Waorani > Guerres.
Violence > Équateur.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnic relations
Huao Indians > Social conditions
Violence
Ecuador > Ethnic relations.
Ecuador
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and Indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows how these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.
ISBN:9780252097027
0252097025

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