Knowing the Day, Knowing the World : Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments and a Note on Authorship -- Introduction "The Things Left in the Ground" : Introducing Archaeology to Arukwa -- Chapter One - "Are You Here?" : Personhood, Presence, Knowledges, and Knowing -- Chapter Two - "So Many Stories on This Day-World" : History as the Retracing of Tracks -- Chapter Three - Journeys with the Rain Stars: Making Sense of the Moving Cosmos -- Chapter Four - The Curvature of Surfaces: Cartesian Space, the Topology of Palikur Grammar, and Consubjective Space -- Chapter Five - "Reading the Tracks of the Ancestors" : Resources for Assembling Times Past -- Chapter Six - The Story Trails of Kwap: Archaeology, Provenance, and an Ecology of Predation -- Epilogue - Beyond Matter Set in Space and Time: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Palicur Indians-Social life and customs. Palicur Indians-Antiquities. Indian philosophy-Brazil-Amapá (State). Indian cosmology-Brazil-Amapá (State). Archaeology and state-Brazil-Amapá (State). Amapá (Brazil : State)-Social life and customs. Amapá (Brazil : State)-Antiquities.