Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives [1st ed.]
0813030609, 9780813030609
These groundbreaking essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple argument--that native Amazonian
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Year 2007
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Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
ISBN......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Figures......Page 5
Foreword......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
I Appropriating Transformarions......Page 30
Time Is Disease, Suffering, and Oblivion......Page 31
If God Were a Jaguar......Page 45
Animal Mastets and the Ecological Embedding of History among the Avila Runa of Ecuador......Page 61
II Altering Bodies, Connecting Names......Page 73
Sick of Hisrory......Page 74
Cultural Change as Body Metamorphosis......Page 92
"Ex-Cocama"......Page 105
III Remembering Ancestraliry......Page 117
Faces from the Past......Page 118
Bones, Flutes, and the Dead......Page 130
Xinguano Heroes, Ancestors, and Others......Page 152
Contributors......Page 166
General Index......Page 167
Index of Indigenous Peoples......Page 170