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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816717503321

Autore

High Casey <1977->

Titolo

Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia / / Casey High

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Illinois ; ; Chicago, Illinois ; ; Springfield, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-252-09702-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Disciplina

305.8009866

Soggetti

Huao Indians - Ecuador - Ethnic identity

Huao Indians - Ecuador - Social conditions

Huao Indians - Wars

Violence - Ecuador

Ethnic relations - Ecuador

Ecuador Ethnic relations

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Civilized victims -- Becoming warriors -- Like the ancient ones -- Lost people and distant kin -- Intimate others -- Shamans and enemies -- Victims and warriors -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

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.