Beyond the Visible and the Material The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière,9780199244751

Beyond the Visible and the Material The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière

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ISBN13: 9780199244751
ISBN10: 0199244758
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-02-14
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This title includes the following features: Contributes to thesubstantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography; Written by eminentspecialists in their fields; Highlights differences in cultural and socialanthropological approaches

Table of Contents

Peter Riviere vii
David Parkin
Notes on Contributors xi
List of Figures
xvi
List of Maps
xviii
List of Tables
xix
Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere
1(18)
Laura Rival
Neil Whitehead
Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality
19(26)
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro
45(12)
Anne-Christine Taylor
Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Significance of Bitter Manioc Cultivation
57(24)
Laura Rival
The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
81(20)
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil
Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestor Spirits
101(22)
Philippe Erikson
From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon
123(34)
Kaj Arhem
The Composition of Mebengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil
157(20)
Vanessa Lea
Piercing Distinctions: Making and Remaking the Social Contract in the North-West Amazon
177(20)
Janet Chernela
Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas
197(24)
Paul Henley
Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure
221(14)
Audrey Butt Colson
Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana
235(12)
Neil Whitehead
Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North-West Amazonia
247(16)
Thomas Griffiths
The Hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender
263(10)
Claire Lorrain
References 273(24)
Index 297

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