Anthropologies of Guayana : cultural spaces in northeastern Amazonia /
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| Imprint: | Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009. |
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| Description: | viii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Native peoples of the Americas Native peoples of the Americas (Tucson, Ariz.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7916713 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- A Note on Terminology
- 1. Guayana as Anthropological Imaginary: Elements of a History
- Part 1. Archaeology and Ecology
- 2. Pleistocene-Early Holocene Environmental Change: Implications for Human Adaptive Responses in the Guianas
- 3. Between Orinoco and Amazon: The Ceramic Age in the Guianas
- 4. Points of Convergence-Routes of Divergence: Some Considerations Based on Curt Nimuendajú's Archaeological Work in the Santarém-Trombetas Area and at Amapá
- 5. Scientific Forestry and Degraded Forests: The Story of Guiana Shield Forests
- Part 2. Ethnography and Ethnology
- 6. Individual and Society in Guiana Revisited
- 7. The Guayanese Paradox
- 8. Imagining Group, Living Territory: A Kali'na and Wayana View of History
- 9. Historical Perspectives on Areruya Communicative Ideology
- 10. Tongues in Space: Pa'ikwené (Palikur) Language(s), Relatedness, Identity
- 11. Guyana's Amerindians, Postindependence Identity Politics, and National Discourse
- 12. Ethnopolitics and Fractured Nationalism in Guyana
- 13. Postcolonial Policing and the Subculture of Violence in Guyana
- Part 3. Theoretícal and Imagínatíve Spaces
- 14. Guyana as a Literary and Imaginative Space
- 15. Inhabiting the Imagined Space: Constructing Waiwai Identity in the Deep South of Guyana
- 16. Metaphoric Detours and Improper Translations in the Double Field of Waiwai Anthropology
- 17. Cultivating a "Culture": Wajãpi Inventions
- 18. Angles of Vision from the Coast and Hinterland of Guyana
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
