Research Catalog

Title

Histories and historicities in Amazonia [electronic resource] / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.

Details

Additional Authors

• Whitehead, Neil L.
• American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

xx, 236 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

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.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic text and image data.

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.

OCLC

(dli)HEB03502

Title

Histories and historicities in Amazonia [electronic resource] / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.

Imprint

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.

Series

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.

Reproduction

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Added Author

Whitehead, Neil L.

American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/

LCCN

2002032241