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Revenge in the cultures of lowland South America

Title
Revenge in the cultures of lowland South America / edited by Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Beckerman, Stephen.
  • Valentine, Paul, 1942-
Description
xxii, 314 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Revenge > South America
  • Retribution > South America
  • Violence > South America
  • Murder > South America
  • Murder
  • Retribution
  • Revenge
  • Social conditions
  • Violence
  • Tiefland
  • Krieg
  • Fehde
  • Rache
  • Indianer
  • South America > Social conditions
  • South America
  • Südamerika
  • Indianer
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-289) and index.
Contents
Revenge : an overview / Stephen Beckerman -- Revenge and reproduction : the biopolitics of caring and killing in Native Amazonia / Beth A. Conklin -- Compelling exchanges : Curripaco revenge and warfare / Paul Valentine -- Guesting, feasting, and raiding : transformations of violence in the northwest Amazon / Janet Chernela -- On cannibalism, Yanomami warfare, temporality, and production of life / Catherine Alès -- Life for a life : Barí responses to murder in the Sierra de Perijá / Manuel Lizarralde -- Revenge, bride capture, and gender strategies for survival among the Waorani / Pamela Erickson -- Inca policies to contain revenge / Catherine Julien -- Canela vengeance : formerly compulsory, currently dissipated / William H. Crocker -- Revenge, envy, and cultural change in an Amazonian society / Carolina Izquierdo, Allen Johnson, and Glenn H. Shepard Jr. -- "The jaguar's pineapple" : Secoya shamanic violence and the dangers of cannibalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon / María Susana Cipolletti -- Social control, revenge, and identity among the Caura Ye'kwana of Venezuela / Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey and Paul Valentine -- Envy and revenge : the case of the Piaroa / Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez -- The animals' revenge / Suzanne Oakdale -- Onomastic vengeance and the writing of history / Daniela M. Peluso -- Vengeance, societies, and powers in Amazonian societies / Raymond Verdier.
ISBN
  • 9780813031644
  • 0813031648
LCCN
2007032161
OCLC
  • ocn163707420
  • 163707420
  • SCSB-1461006
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library