Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia : Anthropological Perspectives
Carlos. Fausto
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
Utgitt | Gainesville : : UPF, , 2007.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (337 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Table of Contents vii; List of Figures ix; Foreword. Whose history and history for whom xi; Introduction. Indigenous History and the History of the ""Indians"" 1; 1. Time Is Disease, Suffering, and Oblivion: Yanesha Historicity and the Struggle against Temporality 47; 2. If God Were a Jaguar: Cannibalism and Christianity among the Guarani (16th-20th Centuries) 74; 3. Animal Masters and the Ecological Embedding of History among the Ávila Runa of Ecuador 106; 4. Sick of History: Contrasting Regimes of Historicity in the Upper Amazon 133; 5. Cultural Change as Body Metamorphosis 169. - 6. "Ex-Cocama"": Transforming Identities in Peruvian Amazonia 1947. Faces from the Past: Just How "Ancestral" Are Matis "Ancestor Spirit" Masks? 219; 8. Bones, Flutes, and the Dead: Memory and Funerary Treatments in Amazonia 243; 9. Xinguano Heroes, Ancestors, and Others: Materializing the Past in Chiefly Bodies, Ritual Space, and Landscape 284; Contributors 313; General Index 315; Index of Indigenous Peoples 321. - These groundbreaking essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple argument--that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic. Change and transformation define the indigenous history of the Amazon from before European conquest to the present.
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Emner | Indian philosophy - History - Amazon River Region
Indians of South America - Psychology - Amazon River Region Indians of South America - Social life and customs - Amazon River Region Memory - Social aspects - Amazon River Region Vis mer... Social change - Amazon River Region
Time - Social aspects - Amazon River Region Indian philosophy -- Amazon River Region -- History. Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Psychology. Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs. History & Archaeology Latin America Regions & Countries - Americas Amazonas indianere Sør-Amerika antropologi sosialantropologi sosial endring |
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ISBN | 9780813030609
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