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Beyond the visible and the material : the amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière
- Title
- Beyond the visible and the material : the amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière / edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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- Description
- xiii, 301 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- A collection of 14 papers contributed by worldwide colleagues in honor of Rivière's work as he nears retirement from the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-295) and index.
- Contents
- Forty years of Amazonian anthropology: the contributions of Peter Rivière / Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead -- GUT feelings about Amazonia: potential affinity and the construction of sociality / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Wives, pets, and affines: marriage among the Jivaro / Anne-Christine Taylor -- Seed and clone: the symbolic and social significance of bitter manioc cultivation / Laura Rival -- The Blowpipe Indians: variations on the theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon / Jean-Pierre Chameil -- Myth and material culture: Matis blowguns, palm trees, and ancestor spirits / Philippe Erikson -- From longhouse to village: structure and change in the Colombian Amazon / Kaj Århem -- The composition of Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) households in central Brazil / Vanessa Lea -- Piercing distinctions: making and remaking the social contract in the north-west Amazon / Janet Chernela -- Inside and out: alterity and the ceremonial construction of the person in the Guianas / Paul Henley -- Itoto (Kanaima) as death and anti-structure / Audrey Butt Colson -- Kanaimà: shamanism and ritual death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana / Neil Whitehead -- Finding one's body: relationships between cosmology and work in north-west Amazonia / Thomas Griffiths -- The hierarchy bias and the equality bias: epistemological considerations on the analysis of gender / Claire Lorrain.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-5464
- ISBN
- 0199244758
- 0199244766 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2001036816
- OCLC
- 47665247
- Title
- Beyond the visible and the material : the amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière / edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-295) and index.
- Added Author
- Rivière, Peter.Rival, Laura M.Whitehead, Neil L.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-5464