Beyond the Visible and the Material
The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivi?re
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 December 2001
- ISBN 9780199244768
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages318 pages
- Size 242x163x22 mm
- Weight 459 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 maps, 4 halftones, numerous tables and figures 0
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Short description:
This volume explores the legacy of Peter Rivi?re, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. An international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics which include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation and analysis, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking.
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The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of Peter Rivi?re, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. This international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics which include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation and analysis, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking. In addition the ethnology of the Guianas receives particular emphasis, as do the themes of shamanism, history, and colonialism as they have affected this region. In showing how alive the field of Amazonian anthropology has become, whilst pointing to conceptual aspects in need of further elaboration, the contributors demonstrate their shared conviction that the impact of Amazonian ethnology is becoming comparable to that of African ethnology in the 1950s and Melanesian ethnology in the 1980s.
Whitehead does a superb job at showing the complex relationships among history, coloniality, border-transformation, culture, and local knowledge.
Table of Contents:
Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere
Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality
Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro
Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Signification of Bitter Manioc Cultivation
The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestors
From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon
The Composition of Me bengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil
Piercing Distinctions: The Making (and Remaking) of Social Contract in the North West Amazon
Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas
Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure
Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana
Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North West Amazonia
The hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender
