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Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia / Casey High.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- High, Casey, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium
- 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.
- Ecuador--Ethnic relations.
- Ecuador.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, Illinois ; Chicago, Illinois ; Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Civilized victims
- Becoming warriors
- Like the ancient ones
- Lost people and distant kin
- Intimate others
- Shamans and enemies
- Victims and warriors
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252097027
- 0252097025
- OCLC:
- 904398596
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