Beyond the Visible and the Material
The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviere
Published on 13. December 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
318 pages
978-0-19-924476-8 (ISBN)
Description
The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of Peter Riviere, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. This international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics which include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation and analysis, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking. In addition the ethnology of the Guianas receives particular emphasis, as do the themes of shamanism, history, and colonialism as they have affected this region. In showing how alive the field of Amazonian anthropology has become, whilst pointing to conceptual aspects in need of further elaboration, the contributors demonstrate their shared conviction that the impact of Amazonian ethnology is becoming comparable to that of African ethnology in the 1950s and Melanesian ethnology in the 1980s.
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Whitehead does a superb job at showing the complex relationships among history, coloniality, border-transformation, culture, and local knowledge. * Michael A. Uzendoski, Florida State University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 maps, 4 halftones, numerous tables and figures
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924476-8 (9780199244768)
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Beyond the Visible and the Material
The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviere
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12/2001
Oxford University Press
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Content
1. Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere ; 2. Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality ; 3. Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro ; 4. Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Signification of Bitter Manioc Cultivation ; 5. The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon ; 6. Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestors ; 7. From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon ; 8. The Composition of Me bengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil ; 9. Piercing Distinctions: The Making (and Remaking) of Social Contract in the North West Amazon ; 10. Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas ; 11. Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure ; 12. Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana ; 13. Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North West Amazonia ; 14. The hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender