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Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives
Carlos . Ed(S): Fausto
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paperback. Editor(s): Fausto, Carlos. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Based on recent ethnographic fieldwork and firsthand analysis of indigenous history, this collection examines the concepts of time and change as they played out in areas ranging from religion, cosmology, and mortuary practices to attitudes toward ethnic difference and the treatment of animals. Without imposing traditionally Western notions of what “time” and “change” mean, the collection looks at how native Amazonians experienced forms of cultural memory and at how their narratives of the past helped construct their sense of the present and, inevitably, their own identity.
The volume offers some of the most interesting and nuanced discussions to date ... Read more
Based on recent ethnographic fieldwork and firsthand analysis of indigenous history, this collection examines the concepts of time and change as they played out in areas ranging from religion, cosmology, and mortuary practices to attitudes toward ethnic difference and the treatment of animals. Without imposing traditionally Western notions of what “time” and “change” mean, the collection looks at how native Amazonians experienced forms of cultural memory and at how their narratives of the past helped construct their sense of the present and, inevitably, their own identity.
The volume offers some of the most interesting and nuanced discussions to date ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813044798
SKU
V9780813044798
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About Carlos . Ed(S): Fausto
Carlos Fausto, associate professor of anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is the author of Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia. Michael Heckenberger, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida, USA is the author of The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000–2000.
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