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Rethinking history and myth : indigenous South American perspectives on the past / edited by Jonathan D. Hill.
Van Pelt Library F2230.1.R3 R47 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Religion--Congresses.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Religion.
- Indians of South America--History--Congresses.
- History.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1988]
- Contents:
- Introduction : myth and history / Jonathan D. Hill
- Cauchu Uras : histories of the Amazon rubber boom / Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
- Righting history in the northwest Amazon : myth, structure, and history in an Arapaco narrative / Janet M. Chernela
- The destroying Christ : the Aymara myth of conquest / Mary Dillon and Thomas Abercrombie
- Time, narrative, and ritual : historical interpretations from an Amazonian society / Jonathan D. Hill and Robin M. Wright
- The Josho Nahuanbo are all wet and undercooked : Shipibo views of the white man and the Incas in myth, legend, and history / Peter G. Roe
- Images of resistance in colonial domination / Roger Rasnake
- Cerebral savage : the whiteman as symbol of cleverness and savagery in Waura myth / Emilienne Ireland
- Political memories and colonizing symbols : Santiago and the Peruvian mountain gods of colonial Peru / Irene Silverblatt
- History, myth, and social consciousness among the Kayapo of central Brazil / Terence Turner
- Indian voices : contact experienced and expressed / Alcida Rita Ramos
- Commentary : myth and history in native South American representations of contact with Western society / Terence Turner
- Commentary : historical and mythic evocations of Chthonian power in South America / Norman E. Whitten, Jr.
- Notes:
- Rev. versions of papers read in 1984 at a session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 307-329.
- ISBN:
- 0252015436
- 0252060288
- OCLC:
- 17620403
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