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Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People

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Christine Hunefeldt, Valerie Saiag
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 531–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4451566
Published: 01 July 2018
... can fight as a warrior now. You fight with your knowledge” (268). Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People . By Michael F. Brown ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 336 pp., contents, note to readers, introduction, part one, part two, notes, sources...
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology

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Robert Wasserstrom
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 750–752.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7683366
Published: 01 October 2019
...Robert Wasserstrom Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer . By Fernando Santos-Granero . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . 285 pp., contents, illustrations, acknowledgments, prologue, epilogue, glossary, notes, references, index. $29.95...
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Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture.

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Frank Salomon
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 357–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-078
Published: 01 April 2008
..., anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars should find it useful for research and upper level teaching. 10.1215/00141801-2007-077 Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture. By Lúcia Sá. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Cultural Studies of the Americas...
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Between Friends and Enemies: The Dynamics of Interethnic Relations in Amazonian Ecuador

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Mary-Elizabeth Reeve, Casey High
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 141–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1435410
Published: 01 January 2012
...Mary-Elizabeth Reeve; Casey High This article examines the shifting nature of interethnic relations between two indigenous groups in Amazonian Ecuador, the Curaray River group of lowland Kichwa and the neighboring Waorani of the Curaray region. Waorani and Curaray Kichwa interaction from the 1930s...
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Fluvial Communities and Amazonian Itineraries

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Hugh Cagle
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 157–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4260730
Published: 01 January 2018
...Hugh Cagle Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil . By Roller Heather F. . ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2014 . xxvi+342 pp., introduction, maps, appendixes, glossary, bibliography, index . $70.00 hardback.) Copyright 2018...
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Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes

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Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 121–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11472796
Published: 01 January 2025
...Maya Stanfield-Mazzi [email protected] Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes . By Claudia Brosseder . ( Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2023 . 400 pp., color illustrations, maps, glossary, index. $60.00 cloth.) Copyright 2025 by American...
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Recent Works on Amazonian Indians

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Seth Garfield
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 755–766.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-755
Published: 01 October 2000
...Seth Garfield American Society for Ethnohistory 2000 Review Essays Recent Works on Amazonian Indians Seth Garfield, Bowdoin College Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, By Michael Edward Stanfield. (Albuquerque: Uni- versity of New...
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History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community

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Suzanne Oakdale
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 381–401.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-381
Published: 01 July 2001
...Suzanne Oakdale This article explores a mode of historical consciousness constructed through mortuary rituals among a Brazilian Amazonian people. Paradoxically,the process of forgetting is argued to be crucial for this type of historical consciousness. The dual focus on historical consciousness...
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“Adaptive Resistance,” Conservation, and Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Contradictions of Political Organization and Empowerment in the Kaiabi Diaspora

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Simone Athayde, Marianne Schmink
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 549–574.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681795
Published: 01 July 2014
...Simone Athayde; Marianne Schmink Indigenous peoples have been active players in the process of securing land rights and conserving about 21 percent of the Brazilian Amazon. In this article, we examine advances and contradictions in the process of “adaptive resistance” by Amazonian indigenous...
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Rethinking the Amazon Frontier in the Seventeenth Century: The Violent Deaths of the Missionaries Luis Figueira and Francisco Pires

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Pablo Ibáñez-Bonillo
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 575–595.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-6991229
Published: 01 October 2018
... and native peoples on the Amazonian frontier during the mid-seventeenth century. Although colonial records suggest the presence of inevitable conflicts and cultural division within these regions, this article instead emphasizes the long-standing communication between Europeans and natives at the frontier...
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Nobody Knew Their Names: The Black Legend of Tetete Extermination

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Robert Wasserstrom, Susan Reider, Rommel Lara
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 421–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1263848
Published: 01 July 2011
...Robert Wasserstrom; Susan Reider; Rommel Lara Alternately hunted and ignored while they were alive, the Tetete were a small group of Western Tucanoan speakers living in the Amazonian borderlands between Ecuador and Colombia. From 1877 through the 1920s, Ecuadorian rubber collectors shot...
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Surviving the Rubber Boom: Cofán and Siona Society in the Colombia-Ecuador Borderlands (1875–1955)

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Robert Wasserstrom
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 525–548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681786
Published: 01 July 2014
..., the resurgence of Cofán and Siona communities presents a compelling story of survival and reconstruction, not isolation. It bears directly on current discussions of ethnicity, citizenship, and indigenous rights in contemporary Amazonian society. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014...
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Infidels, Virgins, and the Black-Robed Priest: A Backwoods History of Ecuador's Montaña Region

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Eduardo O. Kohn
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 545–582.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-3-545
Published: 01 July 2002
...Eduardo O. Kohn In this article I compare the Quichua oral history of Oyacachi—one of the last autochthonous settlements of the cloud forest of Amazonian Ecuador—with written and iconographic ecclesiastical traditions regarding colonial-era events. This offers a unique opportunity to understand...
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The Horizontal Archipelago: The Quijos/Upper Napo Regional System

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Michael A. Uzendoski
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 317–357.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-2-317
Published: 01 April 2004
...Michael A. Uzendoski In the Quijos/Upper Napo region of the Western Amazonian frontier,long-distance exchange, markets, and verticality represent significant aspects of social organization that can be found in historical sources. It is argued that local and regional exchanges followed a social...
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Antiquity of Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge in Amazonia: The Tupí-Guaraní Family and Time

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William Balée
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 399–422.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-2-399
Published: 01 April 2000
... Press. 1994 Footprints of the Forest: Ka'apor Ethnobotany—The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People . New York: Columbia University Press. n.d. Environment, Culture, and Sirionó Plant Names. In Language, Knowledge, and the Environment: The Interdependence...
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Materiality, Exchange, and History in the Amazon: A Growing Field of Study

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Juan Luis Rodríguez, Jonathan D. Hill
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 525–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1263875
Published: 01 July 2011
...Juan Luis Rodríguez; Jonathan D. Hill The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood . Edited by Santos-Granero Fernando . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2009 . 277 pp., introduction, figures, tables, index . $55.00 cloth...
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Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on the Formation of Cultural Identity

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Robin M. Wright
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 703–714.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-3-703
Published: 01 July 2002
... detailing either the dimensions or the scale of such change. Joanna Overing and Alan Passes’s collection, The Anthropology of Love and Anger, is an important contribution to the ethnology of Amazonian...
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Shamans in the Colonial Frontier Zone: Spirit Mastery in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Ecuador

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Rachel Corr
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 45–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10117264
Published: 01 January 2023
...” (Espinoza Soriano 1999 : 126), “idolatrous,” and “people considered bellicose” (Gómez Rendón 2020 : 11). In eighteenth-century Ecuador, it was often used as an ethnonym to refer specifically to Shuar, Achuar, and other peoples of the southern Ecuadorian Amazonian region. However, there are also several...
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The Gathering of the Clans: The Making of the Palikur naoné

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Alan Passes
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 257–291.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-2-257
Published: 01 April 2004
... Peoples in the Guiana Shield. In Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present . Anna C. Roosevelt, ed. Pp. 55 -78. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Barre, Joseph-Antoine Lefebvre de la 1666 Description de la France equinoctiale, cy-devant appellée Guyanne, et par les Espagnols, El Dorado...
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To What Extent Were Amazon Women Facts, Real or Imagined, of Native Americans?

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Astrid Steverlynck
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 689–726.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-4-689
Published: 01 October 2005
..., and Horacio Biord 1994 The Impact of Conquest on Contemporary Indigenous People of the Guiana Shield:The System of Orinoco Regional Interdependence. In Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives . Anna C. Roosevelt, ed. Pp. 55 -78. Tucson: University of Arizona Press...
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