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Histories and historicities in Amazonia

Title
Histories and historicities in Amazonia / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
Whitehead, Neil L.
Description
xx, 236 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Indians of South America > Amazon River Watershed > Historiography
  • Indian cartography > Amazon River Watershed
  • Indians of South America > Ecology > Amazon River Watershed
  • Ethnohistory > Amazon River Watershed
  • Oral tradition > Amazon River Watershed
  • Amazon River Watershed > Colonization
Note
  • "Derives from a special session of the American Society for Ethnohistory that was part of a series of plenary sessions on global and local histories"--Introd.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.
Contents
From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawak-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Three patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memories : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Farage -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among the Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Makuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significance / Rafael Gassón.
Call Number
JGE 03-67
ISBN
  • 0803248059 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 080329817X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002032241
OCLC
50516483
Title
Histories and historicities in Amazonia / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.
Added Author
Whitehead, Neil L.
Research Call Number
JGE 03-67
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