Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia : reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory / edited by Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill.
"A major contribution to Amazonian anthropology, and possibly a direction changer."--J. Scott Raymond, University of Calgary A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | "A major contribution to Amazonian anthropology, and possibly a direction changer."--J. Scott Raymond, University of Calgary A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Amazonia. Th. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1607320959 9781607320951 9781457116834 1457116839 9781457111587 1457111586 |