| Description |
xx, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
"Derives from a special session of the American Society for Ethnohistory that was part of a series of plenary sessions on global and local histories"--Introd. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index. |
| Contents |
From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawak-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Three patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memories : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Farage -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among the Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Makuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significance / Rafael Gassón. |
| Reproduction |
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 access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Amazon River Watershed -- Historiography.
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Indian cartography -- Amazon River Watershed.
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Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Amazon River Watershed.
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Ethnohistory -- Amazon River Watershed.
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Oral tradition -- Amazon River Watershed.
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Amazon River Watershed -- Colonization.
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| Added Author |
Whitehead, Neil L.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0803248059 |
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080329817X |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb03502 hdl |
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