دانلود کتاب Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia

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Contents......Page 2
Acknowledgments......Page 3
Introduction......Page 5
PART I: Languages, Cultures, and Local Histories......Page 16
The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America......Page 17
2 Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization......Page 30
3 Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving Knowledge of Arawak......Page 42
PART 2: Hierarchy, Diaspora, and New Identities......Page 53
4 Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative......Page 54
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......Page 66
6 Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia......Page 78
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......Page 90
PART 3: Power, Cultism, and Sacred Landscapes......Page 103
8 A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion......Page 104
9 Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region......Page 116
10 Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia......Page 129
11 Prophetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon......Page 139
References Cited......Page 152
Contributors......Page 168
Index......Page 170