...Christine Mathias Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia . By Vilaça Aparecida . Translated by Rodgers David . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . xvii + 370 pp., acknowledgments, orthography, introduction, maps, illustrations...

.... Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan, eds. Pp. 259–68. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Edited by Neil L. Whitehead. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xxi + 236 pp., introduction, bibliography, contributors, index, 2...

...Loretta A. Cormier Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia. Edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. viii + 340 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, tables, figures, references, index...

...Robert Wasserstrom Sociedades indígenas de la Alta Amazonía: Fortunas y adversidades (siglos XVII–XX) . By Cipolletti María Susana . ( Quito : Ediciones Abya-Yala , 2017 . 361 pp., introduction, maps, chapter bibliographies . $24 paper.) Copyright 2018 by American Society for...

... archaeology, with chapters by César Velandia on the San Agustín culture, Eduardo G. Neves on Amazonia, Carl Henrik Lange- baek on Colombian metallurgy, and Cristóbal Gnecco on archaeology and historical multivocality. These contributions exemplify emerging applica- tions of structuralism, historical...

...William Balée Traditional ethnobiological knowledge ( tek ) in Amazonia can be elucidated by comparative study within a language family. Some of this tek has been more resistant to change than certain elements from other cultural domains, such as kinship and politics. Although much tek has been...

... ethnic entities to create, at its height (c. 1800), a dominant regional polity, itself linked to wider cross-ethnic macropolities under a single leader. New data are offered to support the thesis that such formations, which coevally existed elsewhere in Amazonia,were not just a response to new...

... to the present reveals a pattern marked by oscillations between hostilities and cautious friendship. These shifts are expressed in varied social relations described in the anthropological and historical scholarship on Amazonia, ranging from shamanic attack to marriage alliances. The paper explores...

.... Their multifaceted interactions included violence and negotiations for peace, a social dynamic that is also explored in this article in order to offer new insights on the deaths of the Jesuit missionaries. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 frontier Amazonia Maranhão...

... Ethnohistory 2018 Amazonia French Guiana Aruã Galibi frontier Located between Amazonia and the Guianas, the disputed territories of Amapá (Brazil) and eastern French Guiana, which until 1900 had been claimed both by Portugal/Brazil and France, have been considered a frontier zone by scholars...

...Robert Wasserstrom Yet Nugent’s arguments also have a musty feel. Since the 1990s, few serious researchers would claim that Amazonia represents an anachronistic, out-of-date backwater. That conceit now belongs almost exclusively to tourism operators, feature writers, and development agencies...

....) Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia . By Dean Bartholomew . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2009 . xvii + 324 pp., introduction, figures, notes, bibliography, index . $69.95 cloth.) Editing Eden: A Reconsideration of Identity, Politics, and Place in...

... societies and as individuals. In 1976, Michael F. Brown was a graduate student at the University of Michigan when he went to Amazonia in search of dissertation material. Beginning with romantic illusions of writing about magic and shamanism, he did not find warrior headshrinkers and sympathetic shamans...

... 1998 Sociedad y economía en el espacio cauchero ecuatoriano de la cuenca del Río Napo, 1870–1930 . In Fronteras, colonización, y mano de obra indígena: Amazonía Andina (siglos IXI–XX) . Jordán Pilar García , ed. Pp. 127 – 238 . Lima : Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú . Barnham...

..., Viveiros de Castro examines the religious transformations that resulted from the meeting of two worlds—the Tupi-speaking natives of Brazil and Amazonia and the Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries. The events fall largely in the sixteenth century, with mention of select early seventeenth-century affairs...

... such as a rebellion or millenarian movement, to the use of discourse, or language encoding a vision or plan for social relations. . . . By adapting to political and economic change, they remained Mojos.” In general, we know relatively little about western Amazonia during the century after 1787...

... marginalization became ever more widely shared. It should be no surprise that in 1836, when a coalition of Brazilian and British forces managed to retake Belém, native and mixed-race Amazonians could draw on fluid community formations and on knowledge of the labyrinthine, fluvial routes of Amazonia in an attempt...

... and Frances F. Berdan, eds. Pp. 259–68. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Edited by Neil L. Whitehead. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xxi + 236 pp., introduction, bibliography, contributors, index, 2 tables, 9 photographs...

...]. Anais históricos do estado do Maranhão . Rio de Janeiro : Alumar . Bettendorff João Felipe . 1990 [1909, 1698]. Crônica dos padres da companhia de Jesus no estado do Maranhão . Belém : Cejup . Boer Warren de . 1981 . “ Buffer Zones in the Cultural Ecology of Aboriginal Amazonia...