Comparative Arawakan histories [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia / / edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero

• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.9/004979
• Soggetto topico: Arawakan Indians; Arawakan languages
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HillJonathan David <1954-> Santos-GraneroFernando <1955->
• Note generali: "Written in 1999 and 2000 in preparation for the International Conference 'Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia'"--Acknowledgments.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-325) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES""; ""1. The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America""; ""2. Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization""; ""3. Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving Knowledge of Arawak""; ""PART 2: HIERARCHY, DIASPORA, AND NEW IDENTITIES""; ""4. Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative"" ; ""5. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace-Builders of the Bolivian Savanna""""6. Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia""; ""7. Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa'ikwene (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Center and on the Edge at the Same Time""; ""PART 3: POWER, CULTISM, AND SACRED LANDSCAPES""; ""8. A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion"" ; ""9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region""""10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia""; ""11. Porphetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon""; ""References Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Titolo autorizzato: Comparative Arawakan histories
• ISBN: 1-283-58361-5; 9786613896063; 0-252-09150-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462321803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II