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Time and memory in indigenous Amazonia : anthropological perspectives / edited by Carlos Fausto and Michael Heckenberger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian philosophy--Amazon River Region--History.
- Indian philosophy.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Psychology.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Social life and customs.
- Time--Social aspects--Amazon River Region.
- Time.
- Memory--Social aspects--Amazon River Region.
- Memory.
- Social change--Amazon River Region.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These groundbreaking essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple argument--that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic. Change and transformation define the indigenous history of the Amazon from before European conquest to the present.
- Contents:
- Indigenous History and the History of the "Indians" / Carlos Fausto and Michael Heckenberger
- Appropriating Transformations
- Time Is Disease, Suffering, and Oblivion: Yanesha Historicity and the Struggle against Temporality / Fernando Santos-Granero
- If God Were a Jaguar: Cannibalism and Christianity among the Guarani (16th-20th Centuries) / Carlos Fausto
- Animal Masters and the Ecological Embedding of History among the vila Runa of Ecuador / Eduardo O. Kohn
- Altering Bodies, Connecting Names
- Sick of History: Contrasting Regimes of Historicity in the Upper Amazon / Anne-Christine Taylor
- Cultural Change as Body Metamorphosis / Aparecida Vilaca
- "Ex-Cocama": Transforming Identities in Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow
- Remembering Ancestrality
- Faces of the Past: Just How "Ancestral" Are Matis "Ancestor Spirit" Masks? / Philippe Erikson
- Bones, Flutes, and the Dead: Memory and Funerary Treatments in Amazonia / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil
- Xinguano Heroes, Ancestors, and Others: Materializing the Past in Chiefly Bodies, Ritual Space, and Landscape / Michael Heckenberger.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-3707-7
- OCLC:
- 735602588
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