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Titolo: | 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 | |
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.: | 9910785761203321 |
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