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Record Nr.

UNISA996248046703316

Titolo

Histories and historicities in Amazonia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Neil L. Whitehead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2003

ISBN

0803248059

080329817X

Descrizione fisica

xx, 236 p. : ill., maps ; ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

WhiteheadNeil L

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Amazon River Watershed - Historiography

Indian cartography - Amazon River Watershed

Ethnoecology - Amazon River Watershed

Ethnohistory - Amazon River Watershed

Oral tradition - Amazon River Watershed

Amazon River Watershed Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Derives from a special session of the American Society for Ethnohistory that was part of a series of plenary sessions on global and local histories"--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawak-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Three patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memories : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Farage -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among the Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Makuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significance / Rafael Gassón.