Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
Edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Jonathan D. Hill & Fernando Santos-Granero
- Part 1: Languages, Cultures, and Local Histories
- The Arawakan Matrix. Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America.Fernando Santos-Granero
- Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization. Neil L. Whitehead
- Historical Linguistics and its Contribution to Improve the Knowledge of Arawak. Sidney da Silva Facundes
- Part 2: Hierarchy, Diaspora, and New Identities
- Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative. Michael J. Heckenberger
- Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and fromthe Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace-Builders of the Bolivian Savanna. France-Marie Renard-Casevitz
- Piro, Apurinã and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia. Peter Gow
- Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa’ikwené (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Centre and on the Edge at One and the Same Time. Alan Passes
- Part 3: Power, Cultism, and Sacred Landscapes
- A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion. Alberta Zucchi
- Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region. Jonathan D. Hill
- Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia. Silvia M. Vidal
- Prophetic Traditions among the Baniwa and other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon. Robin M. Wright
- On the Authors
- Index