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Title Time and memory in indigenous Amazonia : anthropological perspectives / edited by Carlos Fausto and Michael Heckenberger
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Indigenous history and the history of the "Indians" / Carlos Fausto and Michael Heckenberger -- Appropriating transformations -- Time is disease, suffering, and oblivion : Yanesha historicity and the struggle against temporality / Fernando Santos-Granero -- If God were a jaguar : cannibalism and Christianity among the Guarani (16th-20th centuries) / Carlos Fausto -- Animal masters and the ecological embedding of history among the Ávila Runa of Ecuador / Eduardo O. Kohn -- Sick of history : contrasting regimes of historicity in the Upper Amazon / Anne-Christine Taylor -- Cultural change as body metamorphosis / Aparecida Vilaça -- "Ex-Cocama": transforming identities in Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow -- Faces of the past : just how "ancestral" are Matis "ancestor spirit" masks? / Philippe Erikson -- Bones, flutes, and the dead : memory and funerary treatments in Amazonia / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil -- Xinguano heroes, ancestors, and others : materializing the past in chiefly bodies, ritual space, and landscape / Michael Heckenberger
Summary These groundbreaking essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple argument--that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic. Change and transformation define the indigenous history of the Amazon from before European conquest to the present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Indian philosophy -- Amazon River Region -- History
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Psychology
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs
Time -- Social aspects -- Amazon River Region
Memory -- Social aspects -- Amazon River Region
Social change -- Amazon River Region
HISTORY.
Indian philosophy
Indians of South America -- Psychology
Indians of South America -- Social life and customs
Memory -- Social aspects
Social change
Time -- Social aspects
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Amérindien (peuple) -- temps (durée) -- conception -- Amazonie -- études diverses.
Amérindien (peuple) -- changement (sociologie) -- conception du monde -- Amazonie -- études diverses.
Amazon River Region
Amazonastiefland
Indianer.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fausto, Carlos
Heckenberger, Michael
ISBN 9780813037073
0813037077