Title The ecology of power : culture, place, and personhood in the southern Amazon, A.D. 1000-2000 / Michael J. Heckenberger

Published New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 404 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Critical perspectives in identity, memory, and the built environment Critical perspectives in identity, memory, and the built environment. Contents Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter PART I Visualizing Deep Temporality -- chapter 2 Culture and History: The Longue Durée -- chapter 3 Traces of Ancient Times -- chapter 4 Social Dynamics Before Europe -- chapter 5 In the Shadow of Empire: Colonialism and Ethnogenesis -- chapter PART II Body, Memory, and History -- chapter 6 Landscape and Livelihood: The Ethos of Settled Village Life -- chapter 7 In the Midst of Others: Landscapes of Memory -- chapter 8 Houses, Heroes, and History: The Fractal Person -- chapter 9 The Symbolic Economy of Power: Plazas as Persons -- chapter 10 Conclusion: The Pedigree of a Contradiction -- chapter Notes -- chapter Bibliography -- chapter Orthography and Glossary of Indigenous Terms Summary Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-384) and index Notes Print version record Subject Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley -- History Indians of South America -- First contact with other peoples -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley -- Social life and customs Chiefdoms -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley Indians -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley -- History Indians -- First contact with other peoples Indians -- Social life and customs -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley Indians -- History -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley Indians -- First contact with other peoples -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley HISTORY. Indians -- Social life and customs Indians -- First contact with other peoples Indians Chiefdoms Colonization Indians of South America Indians of South America -- First contact with other peoples Indians of South America -- Social life and customs Manners and customs Índios (vida cotidiana) -- América do sul;xingu, rio. Índios (história) -- América do sul;xingu, rio. Cultura indígena -- América do sul;xingu, rio. SUBJECT Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- History Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- Colonization Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- Social life and customs Subject Brazil -- Xingu River Valley Xingu-Indianer. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203486625 9780203486627 9780415945981 0415945984 9780415945998 0415945992 9786610174720 6610174725

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