Description |
337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction : myth and history / Jonathan D. Hill -- Cauchu Uras : Lowland and Quichua histories of the Amazon rubber boom / Mary-Elizabeth Reeve -- Righting history in the northwest Amazon : myth, structure, and history in an Arapaco narrative / Janet M. Chernela -- The destroying Christ : an Aymara myth of conquest / Mary Dillon and Thomas Abercrombie -- Time, narrative, and ritual : historical interpretations from an Amazonian society / Jonathan D. Hill and Robin M. Wright -- The Josho Nahuanbo are all wet and undercooked : Shipibo views of the whiteman and the Incas in myth, legend, and history / Peter G. Roe -- Images of resistance in colonial domination / Roger Rasnake -- Cerebral savage : the whiteman as symbol of cleverness and savagery in Waura myth / Emilienne Ireland -- Political memories and colonizing symbols : Santiago and the Peruvian mountain gods of colonial Peru / Irene Silverblatt -- History, myth, and social consciousness among the Kayapó of central Brazil / Terence Turner -- Indian voices : contact experienced and expressed / Alcida Ramos -- Commentary : ethno-ethnohistory : myth and history in native South American representations of contact with Western society / Terence Turner -- Commentary : historical and mythic evocations of Chthonian power in South America / Norman E. Whitten, Jr |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Rev. versions of papers read in 1984 at a session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [307]-329 |
Subject |
Community schools -- Maldives.
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Indian mythology -- South America -- Congresses.
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Indians of South America -- History -- Congresses.
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Indians of South America -- Religion -- Congresses.
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Indian mythology -- South America -- Congresses.
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Indians of South America -- Religion -- Congresses.
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Myth.
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Primary school buildings -- Maldives -- Design and construction
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Schools -- Maldives -- Furniture, equipment, etc
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-
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American Anthropological Association. Meeting (83rd : 1984 : Denver, Colo.)
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LC no. |
88004408 |
ISBN |
0252015436 (alk. paper) |
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0252060288 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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