Title Ecology of Power : Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD

Published London : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (431 pages) Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Illustrations; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; 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; 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 ContradictionNotes; Bibliography; Orthography and Glossary of Indigenous Terms; Index Summary Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology 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 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 SUBJECT Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- History Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- Colonization Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- Social life and customs Subject Brazil -- Xingu River Valley Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203486627 0203486625

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