Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia / / Casey High

• Autore: High Casey <1977->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, Illinois ; ; Chicago, Illinois ; ; Springfield, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8009866
• Soggetto topico: Huao Indians - Ecuador - Ethnic identity; Huao Indians - Ecuador - Social conditions; Huao Indians - Wars; Violence - Ecuador; Ethnic relations - Ecuador
• Soggetto geografico: Ecuador Ethnic relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Civilized victims -- Becoming warriors -- Like the ancient ones -- Lost people and distant kin -- Intimate others -- Shamans and enemies -- Victims and warriors -- Afterword.
• Sommario/riassunto: Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows how these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.
• Titolo autorizzato: Victims and warriors
• ISBN: 0-252-09702-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816717503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium