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
Main Author: High, Casey, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence.
Huao Indians > Social conditions.
Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Violence > Équateur.
Waorani (Indiens) > Guerres.
Waorani (Indiens) > Équateur > Conditions sociales.
Waorani (Indiens) > Identite ethnique > Équateur.
Violence > Ecuador.
Huao Indians > Wars.
Huao Indians > Ecuador > Social conditions.
Huao Indians > Ecuador > Ethnic identity.
Ecuador.
Ecuador > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
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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