1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966355103321

Titolo

Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia : reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory / / Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, CO, : University Press of Colorado, c2011

ISBN

9781457111587

1457111586

9781457116834

1457116839

9781607320951

1607320959

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HornborgAlf

HillJonathan David <1954->

Disciplina

305.800981/1

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - Ethnic identity

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - Languages

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - Antiquities

Anthropological linguistics - Amazon River Region

Ethnicity - Amazon River Region

Ethnohistory - Amazon River Region

Amazon River Region Ethnic relations

Amazon River Region Antiquities

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

Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia; Part I: Archaeology; 2. Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in the Pre-colonial Central Amazon; 3. Deep History, Cultural Identities, and Ethnogenesis in the Southern Amazon; 4. Deep Time, Big Space; 5. Generic Pots and Generic Indians; 6. An Attempt to Understand Panoan Ethnogenesis in Relation to Long-Term Patterns and Transformation sof Regional Interaction in Western Amazonia; Part II: Linguistics; 7. Amazonian Ritual Communication in



Relation to Multilingual Social Networks

8. The Spread of the Arawakan Languages9. Comparative Arawak Linguistics; 10. Linguistic Diversity Zones and Cartographic Modeling; 11. Nested Identities in the Southern Guyana-Surinam Corner; 12. Change, Contact, and Ethnogenesis in Northern Quechua; Part III: Ethnohistory; 13. Sacred Landscapes as Environmental Histories in Lowland South America; 14. Constancy in Continuity? Native Oral History, Iconography, and Earthworks on the Upper Purús River; 15. Ethnogenesis at the Interface of the Andes and the Amazon; 16. Ethnogenesis and Interculturality in the "Forest of Canelos"

17. Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics18. Afterword; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""A major contribution to Amazonian anthropology, and possibly a direction changer."" -J. Scott Raymond,University of Calgary    A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.  Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and lan



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996663867303316

Autore

BROOKS, Thomas <1608-1680.>

Titolo

The silent soul, with soveraign antidotes against the most miserable exigents: or, A Christian with an olive-leaf in his mouth : when he is under the greatest afflictions, the sharpest and sorest trials and troubles, the saddest and darkest providences and changes, with answers to divers questions and objections that are of greatest importance, all tending to win and work souls to bee still, quiet, calm and silent under all changes that have, or may pass upon them in this world, &c. / By Thomas Brooks preacher of the Word at Margarets New Fish-street London, and pastor of the Church of Christ meeting there

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by R.I. for John Hancock, to be sold at the first shop in Popes-head-Alley next to Corn-hill., 1660

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) ([24], 372, [12] p.)

Disciplina

248.4

Soggetti

Vita cristiana

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Le ultime sei pagine contengono: indice, errata corrige, pubblicità per John Hancock.

Annotazione sulla copia di Thomason: "August"

Riproduzione dell'originale presso la British Library