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... of regional society have been curtailed by the border closure with Peru in the 1940s and incursions by non-Indigenous people, but in the past Amazonian Kichwa societies were larger and stronger, supported by ethnogenesis after colonial-era epidemics. Yet Reeve was only able to understand how this historical...

...R. Alan Covey [email protected] Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes . By Claudia Brosseder . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . 378...

... The Dilemma of Amazonian Development . Edited by Moran Emilio F. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1983 . Figures. Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index . Pp. xvi , 347 . Cloth . $25.00 . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Growth Without...

...- and Achuar-speaking peoples of the region and their reactions to the changes and policies imposed on them. Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador . By Whitten Norman E. Jr . Urbana : University of Illinois Press...

...Arlene M. Kelly Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People . By Gregor Thomas . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1985 . Illustrations. Tables. References. Index . Pp. xii , 223 . Cloth. $19.95 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986...

...Seth Leacock Force and Persuasion: Leadership in an Amazonian Society . By Kracke Ward H. . Chicago , 1979 . The University of Chicago Press . Map. Illustrations. Graphs. Appendix. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 322 . Cloth. $21.00 . Copyright 1980 by Duke...

...Blanca Muratorio Amazonian Indians From Prehistory to the Present: Anthropological Perspectives . Edited by Roosevelt Anna . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1995 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii , 420 pp. Cloth . $60.00...

... and cosmological system of a primitive people as recounted and interpreted by a single informant. Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual & Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians . By Reichel-Dolmatoff Gerardo . Chicago and London , 1971 . University...

... otherness” (doble alteridad)—which not only was the result of the gaze of an outsider but in most cases was generated by a third party without direct experience with the subjects they were depicting. This problem of studying Amazonian people through the lens of others is a well-known concern among scholars...

... 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 It is a daunting endeavor to pursue research on well-known figures such as Teddy Roosevelt, Euclides da Cunha, and Theodor Koch-Grünberg, explorers whose Amazonian travels have been the subject of many scholarly and popular historical works. Jessica Carey-Webb...

... Press 2005 Neil Whitehead believes Amazonian history remains “an eternal present of ‘first contacts’ and ‘marvelous discover[ies]’” (p. vii). Western scholars have preferred to accept, as history, the discursive inventions of European chroniclers whose reports are several removes from their sources...

... of slavery, through the period of abolition, and into the twentieth century. In doing so, the author makes an important contribution to our understanding of how Afro-Amazonian communities preserved their autonomy over time. A central insight of the book is that the natural landscapes of Amazonia helped...

... Meggars (“Environment and Culture in Amazonia”), Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira (“Indigenous Peoples and Sociocultural Change in the Amazon”), Emilio Moran (“The Adaptive System of the Amazonian Caboclo”), John Saunders (“The Population of the Brazilian Amazon Today”), and Richard Preto-Rodas (“Amazonia...

... University Press 2004 This volume promotes Amazonian history as a legitimate and recognized academic discipline. Works in anthropology, ethnohistory, and environmental studies have shaped the field of Amazonian studies, leaving historians with ample room to contextualize earlier works while calling...

... quoted as saying that Ecuador is a very difficult country to govern. In the mid-1960s, oil was (re)discovered in the Amazonian territories (which are about two thousand miles from the Amazon itself), and its political-economic history since then can be characterized as one of rising expectations...

... of numerous works. Few studies, however, address Amazonian societies as protagonists of the narrative and not merely as side actors; Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho's comprehensive work is one such study. The book aims to study the appropriation of the Christian religion and Iberian culture—urbanism...

... research problems. He warns against the ideological content of “first” sources, the lack of an interdisciplinary approach, the inadequate knowledge of Amazonian ethnography, and the negligible Amerindian input. Four papers in the volume reconstruct cultural history. Jalil Sued Badillo proposes real...

... Press 1979 This report, written by a Peruvian anthropologist with long experience of work in technical aid programs, provides a useful summary of information about a little known aspect of the history of colonization of the Amazonian lowlands: the attempts of the Peruvian government and several...

..., $34.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Imagine an Indigenous Amazonian stimulant plant, colonized, classified, and coveted by Western medicine by the nineteenth century, added into an energizing secret-formula soda fountain drink, which then booms in the industrial age...

... of the pre-1964 period remains. According to the author, the dominant factor behind the current treatment of Amazonian populations is the alliance of Brazilian development agencies, multinationals, and international lending institutions. As an historical source, the book fails by its reliance...