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Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Neil L. Whitehead
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Description for Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Paperback. Presents a collection of fieldwork and the theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. This book examines the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in various communities. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; HBA; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or way of thinking ... Read more
Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or way of thinking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803298170
SKU
V9780803298170
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About Neil L. Whitehead
Neil L. Whitehead is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the editor of Ethnohistory. He is the author of Dark Shamans: Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death and coeditor (with Laura Rival) of Beyond the Visible and the Material: Retrospect and Prospect in Amazonian Anthropology.
Reviews for Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
"A welcome addition to serious scholarship directed at the uniting of history, historicity, ethnohistory, ethnology and ethnography."-Norman E. Whitten Jr., Ethnohistory
Norman E. Whitten Jr. Ethnohistory "Whitehead and the other contributors are to be congratulated for forcing us to reexamine our ideas of what constitutes history and historical consciousness and to continue to insist that lack of literacy does ... Read more
Norman E. Whitten Jr. Ethnohistory "Whitehead and the other contributors are to be congratulated for forcing us to reexamine our ideas of what constitutes history and historical consciousness and to continue to insist that lack of literacy does ... Read more