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Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia : reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory

Title: Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia : reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory / edited by Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill.
Publication: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2011.

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xviii, 380 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: ethnicity in ancient Amazonia / Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill -- Archaeological cultures and past identities in the pre-colonial central Amazon / Eduardo Góes Neves -- Deep history, cultural identities and ethnogenesis in the southern Amazon / Michael Heckenberger -- Deep time, big space: an archaeologist skirts the topic at hand / Warren DeBoer -- Generic pots and generic Indians: the archaeology of ethnogenesis in the middle Orinoco / Kay Tarble de Scaramelli and Franz Scaramelli -- An attempt to understand Panoan ethnogenesis in relation to long-term patterns and transformations of regional interaction in western Amazonia / Alf Hornborg and Love Eriksen -- Amazonian ritual communication in relation to multilingual social networks / Ellen B. Basso -- The spread of the Arawakan languages: a view from structural phylogenetics / Swintha Danielsen, Michael Dunn, and Pieter Muysken -- Comparative Arawak linguistics: notes on reconstruction, diffusion, and Amazonian prehistory / Sidney da Silva Facundes and Ana Paula B. Brandão -- Linguistic diversity zones and cartographic modeling: GIS as a method for understanding the prehistory of lowland South America / Östen Dahl,... [et al.] -- Nested identities in the southern Guyana-Surinam corner / Eithne B. Carlin -- Change, contact, and ethnogenesis in northern Quechua: structural phylogenetic approaches to clause embedding predicates / Pieter Muysken -- Sacred landscapes as environmental histories in lowland South America / Jonathan D. Hill -- Constancy in continuity?: native oral history, iconography, and earthworks on the upper Purús river / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- Ethnogenesis at the interface of the Andes and the Amazon: re-examining ethnicity in the piedmont region of Apolobamba, Bolivia / Meredith Dudley -- Ethnogenesis and interculturality in the "forest of Canelos": the wild and the tame revisited / Norman E. Whitten Jr. -- Captive identities or the genesis of subordinate quasi-ethnic collectivities in the American tropics / Fernando Santos-Granero -- Afterword: ethnicity in ancient Amazonia / Neil L. Whitehead.

Call Number

JGE 12-23

ISBN

9781607320944 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1607320940 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781607320951 (e-book)
1607320959 (e-book)

LCCN

2011028920

OCLC

YBP 2011028920

Title

Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia : reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory / edited by Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill.

Imprint

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hornborg, Alf.

Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-

Research Call Number

JGE 12-23

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