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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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
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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 (248 pages).
ISBN:9780252097027

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