The ecology of power : culture, place, and personhood in the southern Amazon, A.D. 1000-2000 /

The ecology of power : culture, place, and personhood in the southern Amazon, A.D. 1000-2000 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Heckenberger, Michael.
Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 404 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Critical perspectives in identity, memory, and the built environment Critical perspectives in identity, memory, and the built environment.
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley -- History. Indians of South America -- First contact with Europeans -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley. Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley -- Social life and customs. Chiefdoms -- Brazil -- Xingu River Valley. Chiefdoms. Colonization. Indians of South America. Indians of South America -- First contact with Europeans. Indians of South America -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- History. Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- Colonization. Xingu River Valley (Brazil) -- Social life and customs. Brazil -- Xingu River Valley. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11298331

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ISBN:	0203486625 9780203486627 9780415945981 0415945984 9780415945998 0415945992 9786610174720 6610174725 0415945984 0415945992
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-384) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology.
Other form:	Print version: Heckenberger, Michael. Ecology of power. New York : Routledge, 2005 0415945984 0415945992

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction
chapter PART I Visualizing Deep Temporality
chapter 2 Culture and History: The Longue Durée
chapter 3 Traces of Ancient Times
chapter 4 Social Dynamics Before Europe
chapter 5 In the Shadow of Empire: Colonialism and Ethnogenesis
chapter PART II Body, Memory, and History
chapter 6 Landscape and Livelihood: The Ethos of Settled Village Life
chapter 7 In the Midst of Others: Landscapes of Memory
chapter 8 Houses, Heroes, and History: The Fractal Person
chapter 9 The Symbolic Economy of Power: Plazas as Persons
chapter 10 Conclusion: The Pedigree of a Contradiction
chapter Notes
chapter Bibliography
chapter Orthography and Glossary of Indigenous Terms.