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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786978003321

Autore

Mans Jimmy

Titolo

Amotopoan trails [[electronic resource] ] : a recent archaeology of Trio movements / / Jimmy Mans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Sidestone Press, : In cooperation with the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, c2012

ISBN

90-8890-183-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; ; no. 41

Disciplina

998.3

Soggetti

Trio Indians - Migrations

Archaeology - Amazon River Region

Surinam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing the Trio and their environment -- The immobilia of Amotopo -- Amotopoan mobilia and the village flux -- A history of Trio movements (1907-2008) -- Discussion and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favour a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past. Instead of ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book they are considered to be essential for arriving at a different past. Viewing archaeological mobili