Amotopoan trails : a recent archaeology of Trio movements / Jimmy Mans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mans, Jimmy.

Series:

Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 41.

Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trio Indians--Migrations.

Trio Indians.

Archaeology--Amazon River Region.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press : In cooperation with the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favour a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past. Instead of ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book they are considered to be essential for arriving at a different past. Viewing archaeological mobili

Contents:

Introducing the Trio and their environment

The immobilia of Amotopo

Amotopoan mobilia and the village flux

A history of Trio movements (1907-2008)

Discussion and conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-8890-183-X

OCLC:

845047703