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Histories and historicities in Amazonia

Neil L Whitehead c2003 © University of Nebraska Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780803298170 (paper)
  • 9780803248052 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Native Peoples of the Americas
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (Neil L. Whitehead, page vii)
  • Landscape and Cartography
    • 1. From Keeping It Oral to Writing to Mapping: The Kuyujani Legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project (Domingo A. Medina, page 3)
    • 2. The Arawak-Speaking Groups of Northwestern Amazonia: Amerindian Cartography as a Way of Preserving and Interpreting the Past (Silvia M. Vidal, page 33)
    • 3. Three Patamuna Trees: Landscape and History in the Guyana Highlands (Neil L. Whitehead, page 59)
  • Contact and Power
    • 4. Power Encounters (Berta E. Pérez, page 81)
    • 5. Rebellious Memories: The Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 (Nádia Farage, page 107)
  • The Cultural Transformation of History
    • 6. Decolonizing History: Ritual Transformation of the Past among the Guajá of Eastern Amazonia (Loretta Cormier, page 123)
    • 7. Guyanese History, Makushi Historicities, and Amerindian Rights (page 141)
  • The Archaeology of History
    • 8. Caña: The Role of Aguardiente in the Colonization of the Orinoco (Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble, page 163)
    • 9. Ceremonial Feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan Llanos: Some Remarks on Its Sociopolitical and Historical Significance (Rafael Gassón, page 179)
  • Bibliography (page 203)
  • List of Contributors (page 227)
  • Index (page 231)
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ETH 51.2 (2004): 450-453 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ethnohistory/v051/51.2whitten.html
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