Histories and historicities in Amazonia   [electronic resource] / 
edited by Neil L. Whitehead. 
 - Lincoln :   University of Nebraska Press,   c2003. 
 - xx, 236 p. :   ill., maps ;   23 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>  "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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/> Electronic text and image data. <br/> Ann Arbor, Mich. : <br/> University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, <br/> 2005. <br/> Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. <br/> ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) <br/> Mode of a ccess: Intranet. <br/> This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Indians of South America-- Historiography .-- Amazon River Watershed<br/> Indian cartography-- Amazon River Watershed.<br/> Indigenous peoples-- Ecology-- Amazon River Watershed.<br/> Ethnohistory-- Amazon River Watershed.<br/> Oral tradition-- Amazon River Watershed.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/> Amazon River Watershed-- Colonization.