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Histories and historicities in Amazonia [electronic resource] / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.Description: xx, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmSubject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawa k-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Thre e patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memor ies : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Far age -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among t he Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Ma kuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramel li and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuela n llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significan ce / Rafael Gassón.
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"Derives from a special session of the American Society for Ethnohis tory that was part of a series of plenary sessions on global and local histories"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.

From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawa k-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Thre e patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memor ies : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Far age -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among t he Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Ma kuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramel li and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuela n llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significan ce / Rafael Gassón.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.

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