| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Like the Ancient Ones" : The Intercultural Dynamics of Personal Biography in Amazonian Ecuador / Casey High -- "This Happened to Me" : Exemplary Personal Experience Narratives among the Piro (Yine) People of Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow -- Memories of the Ucayali : The Asháninka Story Line / Hanne Veber -- Multiple Biographies : Shamanism and Personhood among the Marubo of Western Amazonia / Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino -- The End of Me : The Role of Destiny in Mapuche Narratives of the Person / Magnus Course -- Relieving Apprehension and Limiting Risk : The Rituals of Extraordinary Communicative Contacts / Ellen B. Basso -- The Lascivious Life of Gabriel Gentil / Oscar Calavia Sáez -- An Indigenous Capitão's Reflections on a Mid-Twentieth-Century Brazilian "Middle Ground" / Suzanne Oakdale -- Fluid Subjectivity : Reflections on Self and Alternative Futures in the Autobiographical Narrative of Hiparidi Top'tiro, a Xavante Transcultural Leader / Laura R. Graham -- Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto |
| Summary |
"Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on Indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood. The volume's exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology. Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the "Western individual" and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of "myth" and "history," the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Ethnic identity
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Indians of South America -- Biography
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Autobiography -- Social aspects -- South America
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Discourse analysis, Narrative -- South America
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Group identity -- South America
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Ethnology -- South America.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
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Ethnology
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Group identity
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Indians of South America
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Indians of South America -- Ethnic identity
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South America
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oakdale, Suzanne, editor
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Course, Magnus, editor
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| LC no. |
2014019559 |
| ISBN |
9780803265141 |
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080326514X |
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0803265158 |
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9780803265158 |
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