Format:
Online-Ressource (431 p.)
ISBN:
9780415945998
Content:
Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Illustrations; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; 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; 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
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CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: The Pedigree of a ContradictionNotes; Bibliography; Orthography and Glossary of Indigenous Terms; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203486627
Additional Edition:
Print version Ecology of Power : Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
