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Title:

Anthropologies of Guayana : cultural spaces in northeastern Amazonia / edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Stephanie W. Alemán.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Indians of South America--Guiana--History.
Indians of South America--Guiana--Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Guiana.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Guiana.
Guiana--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Whitehead, Neil L.
Alemán, Stephanie W., 1967-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-288) and index.

Contents:

Guayana as anthropological imaginary : elements of a history / Neil L. Whitehead -- Pleistocene-early Holocene environmental change : implications for human adaptive responses in the Guianas / Mark G. Plew -- Between Orinoco and Amazon : the ceramic age in the Guianas / Stéphen Rostain -- Points of convergence, routes of divergence : some considerations based on Curt Nimuendajú's archaeological work in the Santarém-Trombetas area and at Amapá / Per Stenborg -- Scientific forestry and degraded forests : the story of Guiana shield forests / Janette Bulkan and John Palmer -- Individual and society in Guiana revisited / Peter Rivière -- The Guayanese paradox / Denise Fajardo Grupioni -- Imagining group, living territory : a Kali'na and Wayana view of history / Gérard Collomb and Francis Dupuy -- Historical perspectives on Areruya communicative ideology / Susan K. Staats -- Tongues in space : Pa'ikwené (Palikur) language(s), relatedness, identity / Alan Passes -- Guyana's Amerindians, postindependence identity politics, and national discourse / Maria del Carmen Moreno -- Ethnopolitics and fractured nationalism in Guyana / David Hinds -- Postcolonial policing and the subculture of violence in Guyana / Joan Mars -- Guyana as a literary and imaginative space / Lúcia Sá -- Inhabiting the imagined space : constructing Waiwai identity in the deep south of Guyana / Stephanie W. Alemán -- Metaphoric detours and improper translations in the double field of Waiwai anthropology / Evelyn Schuler Zea -- Cultivating a "culture" : Wajãpi inventions / Dominique Tilkin Gallois -- Angles of vision from the coast and hinterland of Guyana / Alissa Trotz and Terry Roopnaraine.

Series:

Native peoples of the Americas.

ISBN:

0816526079 (hard cover)
9780816526079 (hard cover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)319501120

LCCN:

2009032640

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)