Histories and historicities in Amazonia

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General notes

"Derives from a special session of the American Society for Ethnohistory that was part of a series of plenary sessions on global and local histories"--Introd Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet

Contents

From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawak-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Three patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memories : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Farage -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among the Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Makuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significance / Rafael Gassón

Extended title: Histories and historicities in Amazonia edited by Neil L. Whitehead

Indians of South America Indian cartography Indigenous peoples Ethnohistory Oral tradition Amazon River Watershed

associated with: Whitehead, Neil L
associated with: American Council of Learned Societies