02691nam 2200469 a 450 99624804670331620220602181316.00803248059080329817X(dli)HEB03502(CKB)1000000000397756(EXLCZ)99100000000039775620030804d2003 ub 0engurmnummmmuuuuHistories and historicities in Amazonia[electronic resource] /edited by Neil L. WhiteheadLincoln University of Nebraska Pressc2003xx, 236 p. ill., maps ;23 cm"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.Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.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.ACLS Humanities E-Book.HISTORIES & HISTORICITIES IN AMAZONIAIndians of South AmericaAmazon River WatershedHistoriographyIndian cartographyAmazon River WatershedEthnoecologyAmazon River WatershedEthnohistoryAmazon River WatershedOral traditionAmazon River WatershedAmazon River WatershedColonizationIndians of South AmericaHistoriography.Indian cartographyEthnoecologyEthnohistoryOral traditionWhitehead Neil L898178American Council of Learned Societies.MiUMiUBOOK996248046703316Histories and historicities in Amazonia2856108UNISA