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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • Civilized victims
  • Becoming warriors
  • Like the ancient ones
  • Lost people and distant kin
  • Intimate others
  • Shamans and enemies
  • Victims and warriors
  • Afterword.

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