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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Table of Contents:
- From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina
- The Arawak-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal
- Three patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead
- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez
- Rebellious memories : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Farage
- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among the Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier
- Guyanese history, Makuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley
- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble
- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significance / Rafael Gassón.