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Online-Ressource (352 p)
ISBN:
9780252073847
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Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas. This volume examines social structures, political hierarchies, rituals, religious movements, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES -- 1. The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America -- 2. Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization -- 3. Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving Knowledge of Arawak -- PART 2: HIERARCHY, DIASPORA, AND NEW IDENTITIES -- 4. Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative -- 5. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace-Builders of the Bolivian Savanna -- 6. Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia -- 7. Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa'ikwene (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Center and on the Edge at the Same Time -- PART 3: POWER, CULTISM, AND SACRED LANDSCAPES -- 8. A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion -- 9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region -- 10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia -- 11. Porphetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES""; ""1. The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America""; ""2. Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization""; ""3. Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving Knowledge of Arawak""; ""PART 2: HIERARCHY, DIASPORA, AND NEW IDENTITIES""; ""4. Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative""
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""5. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace-Builders of the Bolivian Savanna""""6. Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia""; ""7. Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa'ikwene (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Center and on the Edge at the Same Time""; ""PART 3: POWER, CULTISM, AND SACRED LANDSCAPES""; ""8. A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion""
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""9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region""""10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia""; ""11. Porphetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon""; ""References Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252073847
Additional Edition:
Print version Comparative Arawakan Histories : Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
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