Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia - Softcover

 
9780252073847: Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252073843 ISBN 13: 9780252073847
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2006

Synopsis

The first synthesis of the writings of ethnologists, historians, and anthropologists on contemporary Arawakan cultures

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. Comparative Arawakan Histories, in paperback for the first time, 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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About the Author

Jonathan D. Hill is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society.Fernando Santos-Granero is a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the author of The Power of Love: The Moral Use of Knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252073843
ISBN 13 
9780252073847
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
340
Editor
Hill Jonathan D., Santos-Granero Fernando

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