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Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia / Casey High.
Van Pelt Library F3722.1.H83 H55 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- High, Casey, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Interpretations of culture in the new millennium
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Huao Indians--Ecuador--Ethnic identity.
- Huao Indians.
- Huao Indians--Ecuador--Social conditions.
- Huao Indians--Wars.
- Violence--Ecuador.
- Violence.
- Ethnic relations--Ecuador.
- Ethnic relations.
- War.
- Social conditions.
- Ethnicity.
- Ecuador.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- In 1956, a group of Waorani men killer five North American missionaries in Ecuador. The event cemented the Waorani's reputation as "wild Amazonian Indians" and added to the myth of the violent Amazon created by colonial writers still found across the region. Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of Waorani 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 Warorani 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 the legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows that 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. Drawing on years of ethnographics fieldwork, historical missionary texts, and a range of popular media. Victims and Warriors offers new perspectives on the intersection of violence, history and remembering. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Civilized victims
- Becoming warriors
- Like the ancient ones
- Lost people and distant kin
- Intimate others
- Shamans and enemies
- Victims and warriors
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252039058
- 025203905X
- 9780252080678
- 025208067X
- OCLC:
- 893454455
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