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Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia : Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University Press of Colorado, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781607320951
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethnicity in Ancient AmazoniaDDC classification:
  • 305.800981/1
LOC classification:
  • F2519
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia -- Part I: Archaeology -- 2. Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in the Pre-colonial Central Amazon -- 3. Deep History, Cultural Identities, and Ethnogenesis in the Southern Amazon -- 4. Deep Time, Big Space -- 5. Generic Pots and Generic Indians -- 6. An Attempt to Understand Panoan Ethnogenesis in Relation to Long-Term Patterns and Transformation sof Regional Interaction in Western Amazonia -- Part II: Linguistics -- 7. Amazonian Ritual Communication in Relation to Multilingual Social Networks -- 8. The Spread of the Arawakan Languages -- 9. Comparative Arawak Linguistics -- 10. Linguistic Diversity Zones and Cartographic Modeling -- 11. Nested Identities in the Southern Guyana-Surinam Corner -- 12. Change, Contact, and Ethnogenesis in Northern Quechua -- Part III: Ethnohistory -- 13. Sacred Landscapes as Environmental Histories in Lowland South America -- 14. Constancy in Continuity? Native Oral History, Iconography, and Earthworks on the Upper Purús River -- 15. Ethnogenesis at the Interface of the Andes and the Amazon -- 16. Ethnogenesis and Interculturality in the "Forest of Canelos" -- 17. Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics -- 18. Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia -- Part I: Archaeology -- 2. Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in the Pre-colonial Central Amazon -- 3. Deep History, Cultural Identities, and Ethnogenesis in the Southern Amazon -- 4. Deep Time, Big Space -- 5. Generic Pots and Generic Indians -- 6. An Attempt to Understand Panoan Ethnogenesis in Relation to Long-Term Patterns and Transformation sof Regional Interaction in Western Amazonia -- Part II: Linguistics -- 7. Amazonian Ritual Communication in Relation to Multilingual Social Networks -- 8. The Spread of the Arawakan Languages -- 9. Comparative Arawak Linguistics -- 10. Linguistic Diversity Zones and Cartographic Modeling -- 11. Nested Identities in the Southern Guyana-Surinam Corner -- 12. Change, Contact, and Ethnogenesis in Northern Quechua -- Part III: Ethnohistory -- 13. Sacred Landscapes as Environmental Histories in Lowland South America -- 14. Constancy in Continuity? Native Oral History, Iconography, and Earthworks on the Upper Purús River -- 15. Ethnogenesis at the Interface of the Andes and the Amazon -- 16. Ethnogenesis and Interculturality in the "Forest of Canelos" -- 17. Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics -- 18. Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.

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