Histories and historicities in Amazonia / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.
Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, schol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Summary: | Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or way of thinking about the world, a historicity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803248059 9780803248052 080329817X 9780803298170 1280374217 9781280374210 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |