The Cubeo Indians Of The Northwest Amazon
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The Cubeo Indians Of The Northwest Amazon
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Author : Irving Goldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1979
The Cubeo Indians Of The Northwest Amazon written by Irving Goldman and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
The Cubeo Indians Of The Northwest Amazon
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Author : Irving Goldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1979
The Cubeo Indians Of The Northwest Amazon written by Irving Goldman and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
The Wanano Indians Of The Brazilian Amazon
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Author : Janet M. Chernela
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Wanano Indians Of The Brazilian Amazon written by Janet M. Chernela and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Wanano Indians of the northwest Amazon have a social system that differs from those of most tropical forest tribes. Neither stratified by wealth nor strictly egalitarian, Wanano society is "ranked" according to rigidly bound descent groups. In this pioneering ethnographic study, Janet M. Chernela decodes the structure of Wanano society. In Wanano culture, children can be "grandparents," while elders can be "grandchildren." This apparent contradiction springs from the fact that descent from ranked ancestors, rather than age or accumulated wealth, determines one's standing in Wanano society. But ranking's impulse is muted as senior clans, considered to be succulent (referring to both seniority and resource abundance), must be generous gift-givers. In this way, resources are distributed throughout the society. In two poignant chapters aptly entitled "Ordinary Dramas," Chernela shows that rank is a site of contest, resulting in exile, feuding, personal shame, and even death. Thus, Chernela's account is dynamic, placing rank in historic as well as personal context. As the deforestation of the Amazon continues, the Wanano and other indigenous peoples face growing threats of habitat destruction and eventual extinction. If these peoples are to be saved, they must first be known and valued. The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon is an important step in that direction.
Shamanism And Art Of The Eastern Tukanoan Indians
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Author : Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1987
Shamanism And Art Of The Eastern Tukanoan Indians written by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Religion categories.
Mysteries Of The Jaguar Shamans Of The Northwest Amazon
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Author : Robin M. Wright
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01
Mysteries Of The Jaguar Shamans Of The Northwest Amazon written by Robin M. Wright and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Social Science categories.
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls “a nexus of religious power and knowledge” in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters, and dance-leaders exercise complementary functions that link living specialists with the deities and great spirits of the cosmos. By exploring in depth the apprenticeship of the shaman, Wright shows how jaguar shamans acquire the knowledge and power of the deities in several stages of instruction and practice. This volume is the first mapping of the sacred geography (“mythscape”) of the Northern Arawak–speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and other inscriptions and Baniwa sacred narratives as a whole. In eloquent and inviting analytic prose, Wright links biographic and ethnographic elements in elevating anthropological writing to a new standard of theoretically aware storytelling and analytic power.
The Wanano Indians Of The Brazilian Amazon
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Author : Janet M. Chernela
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Wanano Indians Of The Brazilian Amazon written by Janet M. Chernela and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Wanano Indians of the northwest Amazon have a social system that differs from those of most tropical forest tribes. Neither stratified by wealth nor strictly egalitarian, Wanano society is "ranked" according to rigidly bound descent groups. In this pioneering ethnographic study, Janet M. Chernela decodes the structure of Wanano society. In Wanano culture, children can be "grandparents," while elders can be "grandchildren." This apparent contradiction springs from the fact that descent from ranked ancestors, rather than age or accumulated wealth, determines one's standing in Wanano society. But ranking's impulse is muted as senior clans, considered to be succulent (referring to both seniority and resource abundance), must be generous gift-givers. In this way, resources are distributed throughout the society. In two poignant chapters aptly entitled "Ordinary Dramas," Chernela shows that rank is a site of contest, resulting in exile, feuding, personal shame, and even death. Thus, Chernela's account is dynamic, placing rank in historic as well as personal context. As the deforestation of the Amazon continues, the Wanano and other indigenous peoples face growing threats of habitat destruction and eventual extinction. If these peoples are to be saved, they must first be known and valued. The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon is an important step in that direction.
Shamanism And Art Of The Eastern Tukanoan Indians
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Author : Reichel-Dolmatoff
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-09-20
Shamanism And Art Of The Eastern Tukanoan Indians written by Reichel-Dolmatoff and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Architecture categories.
Scoping The Amazon
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Author : Stephen Nugent
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07
Scoping The Amazon written by Stephen Nugent and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07 with Psychology categories.
The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading.
The Indians Of Central And South America
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Author : James S. Olson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1991-06-17
The Indians Of Central And South America written by James S. Olson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-17 with History categories.
At a juncture in history when much interest and attention is focused on Central and South American political, ecological, social, and environmental concerns, this dictionary fills a major gap in reference materials relating to Amerindian tribes. This one-volume reference collects important information about the current status of the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and offers a chronology of the conquest of the Amerindian tribes; a list of tribes by country; and an extensive bibliography of surviving American Indian groups. Historical as well as contemporary descriptions of approximately 500 existing tribes or groups of people are provided along with several bibliographic citations at the conclusion of each entry. The focus of the volume is on those Indian groups that still maintain a sense of tribal identity. For the vast majority of his entries, James S. Olson draws material from the Smithsonian Institution's seven-volume Handbook of South American Indians as well as other classic resources of a broad, general nature. Much attention is also focused on the complicated question of South American languages and on the definition of what constitutes an Indian. Olson's introduction cites dozens of valuable reference works relating to these topics. Following the introduction, this survey of surviving Amerindians is divided into sections that contain entries for each existing tribe or group; an appendix listing tribes by country; the Amerindian conquest chronology; and a bibliographical essay. This unique reference work should be an important item for most public, college, and university libraries. It will be welcomed by reference librarians, historians, anthropologists, and their students.
Cubeo Heh Newa Religious Thought
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Author : Irving Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004-04-21
Cubeo Heh Newa Religious Thought written by Irving Goldman and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-21 with Social Science categories.
The societies of the Vaupés region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict. Here at last is the eagerly awaited publication of a posthumous work by the man widely regarded as the preeminent authority on Vaupés Amazonian societies. Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought will be the definitive account of the religious worldview of a significant Amazonian culture. Cubeo religious thought incorporates ideas about the nature of the cosmos, society, and human life; the individual's orientation to the world; the use of hallucinogenic substances; and a New World metaphysics. This volume was substantially completed before Irving Goldman's death, but Peter Wilson has edited it for publication, providing a thorough introduction to Goldman's work. Stephen Hugh-Jones has contributed an afterword, setting the work in the context of contemporary Vaupés ethnography.