Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia : reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory / edited by Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill
Published Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xviii, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia; Part I: Archaeology; 2. Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in the Pre-colonial Central Amazon; 3. Deep History, Cultural Identities, and Ethnogenesis in the Southern Amazon; 4. Deep Time, Big Space; 5. Generic Pots and Generic Indians; 6. An Attempt to Understand Panoan Ethnogenesis in Relation to Long-Term Patterns and Transformation sof Regional Interaction in Western Amazonia; Part II: Linguistics; 7. Amazonian Ritual Communication in Relation to Multilingual Social Networks
8. The Spread of the Arawakan Languages9. Comparative Arawak Linguistics; 10. Linguistic Diversity Zones and Cartographic Modeling; 11. Nested Identities in the Southern Guyana-Surinam Corner; 12. Change, Contact, and Ethnogenesis in Northern Quechua; Part III: Ethnohistory; 13. Sacred Landscapes as Environmental Histories in Lowland South America; 14. Constancy in Continuity? Native Oral History, Iconography, and Earthworks on the Upper Purús River; 15. Ethnogenesis at the Interface of the Andes and the Amazon; 16. Ethnogenesis and Interculturality in the "Forest of Canelos."
17. Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics18. Afterword; Contributors; Index
Summary "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. The evidence, however, suggests a much more fluid relationship among geography, language use, ethnic identity, and genetics. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia, leading linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists interpret their research from a unique nonessentialist perspective to form a more accurate picture of the ethnolinguistic diversity in this area. Revealing how ethnic identity construction is constantly in flux, contributors show how such processes can be traced through different ethnic markers such as pottery styles and languages. Scholars and students studying lowland South America will be especially interested, as will anthropologists intrigued by its cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach." -- Publisher's Description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Ethnic identity
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Languages
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Antiquities
Anthropological linguistics -- Amazon River Region
Ethnicity -- Amazon River Region
Ethnohistory -- Amazon River Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Anthropological linguistics
Antiquities
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Ethnohistory
Indians of South America -- Antiquities
Indians of South America -- Ethnic identity
Indians of South America -- Languages
SUBJECT Amazon River Region -- Ethnic relations
Amazon River Region -- Antiquities
Subject Amazon River Region
Form Electronic book
Author Hornborg, Alf.
Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-
LC no. 2011028920
ISBN 1607320959
9781607320951
9781457116834
1457116839
9781457111587
1457111586