| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages). |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
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Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Civilized victims -- Becoming warriors -- Like the ancient ones -- Lost people and distant kin -- Intimate others -- Shamans and enemies -- Victims and warriors -- Afterword. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Huao Indians -- Ecuador -- Ethnic identity.
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Huao Indians. |
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Ecuador. |
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Ethnicity. |
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Huao Indians -- Ecuador -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Huao Indians -- Wars.
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War. |
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Violence -- Ecuador.
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Violence. |
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Ethnic relations -- Ecuador.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: High, Casey, 1977- Victims and warriors. Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2015] 9780252039058 (DLC) 2014033693 (OCoLC)893454455 |
| ISBN |
9780252097027 (electronic book) |
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0252097025 (electronic book) |
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9780252039058 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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025203905X (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9780252080678 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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025208067X (paperback alkaline paper) |
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