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1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Indigenous history and the history of the "Indians" / Carlos Fausto and Michael Heckenberger -- Appropriating transformations -- Time is disease, suffering, and oblivion : Yanesha historicity and the struggle against temporality / Fernando Santos-Granero -- If God were a jaguar : cannibalism and Christianity among the Guarani (16th-20th centuries) / Carlos Fausto -- Animal masters and the ecological embedding of history among the Ávila Runa of Ecuador / Eduardo O. Kohn -- Sick of history : contrasting regimes of historicity in the Upper Amazon / Anne-Christine Taylor -- Cultural change as body metamorphosis / Aparecida Vilaça -- "Ex-Cocama": transforming identities in Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow -- Faces of the past : just how "ancestral" are Matis "ancestor spirit" masks? / Philippe Erikson -- Bones, flutes, and the dead : memory and funerary treatments in Amazonia / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil -- Xinguano heroes, ancestors, and others : materializing the past in chiefly bodies, ritual space, and landscape / Michael Heckenberger. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indian philosophy -- Amazon River Region -- History.
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Indian philosophy. |
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Amazon River Region. |
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History. |
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Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Psychology.
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Indians of South America. |
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Psychology. |
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Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Time -- Social aspects -- Amazon River Region.
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Time -- Social aspects. |
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Amazon River Region.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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Memory. |
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Social change -- Amazon River Region.
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Social change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Fausto, Carlos.
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Heckenberger, Michael.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Time and memory in indigenous Amazonia. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007 9780813030609 (DLC) 2007001324 (OCoLC)79002644 |
| ISBN |
9780813037073 (electronic book) |
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0813037077 (electronic book) |
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9780813030609 |
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0813030609 |
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