| Subject |
Arawakan Indians -- Congresses.
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Arawakan languages -- Congresses.
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| Alt Name |
Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-
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Santos-Granero, Fernando, 1955-
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| Description |
1 online resource |
| Note |
"Written in 1999 and 2000 in preparation for the International Conference 'Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia'"--Acknowledgments. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-325) and index. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 Savanna6. 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 |
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9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region10. 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 |
| ISBN |
9780252091506 epub |
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0252091507 |
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0252027582 Cloth : acid-free paper |
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9780252027581 (Cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0252073843 |
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9780252073847 |
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0252027582 (Cloth ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9780252091506 |
| OCLC # |
811409841 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Comparative Arawakan histories 0252027582 (Cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2001007537 |
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