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Individual and Society in Guiana Tales of the Yanomami. Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest

Sister M. Noel Menezes, RSM
Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (4): 806–808.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-66.4.806
Published: 01 November 1986
...Sister M. Noel Menezes; RSM Individual and Society in Guiana . By Riviere Peter . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vii , 124 . Cloth. Tales of the Yanomami. Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest . By Lizot Jacques...
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War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare

Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 499–500.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-73.3.499
Published: 01 August 1993
... of more recent European colonies and states: the Caribs and Arawaks of South America (Whitehead), the Iroquois of North America (Abler), the Asháninka in eastern Peru (Brown and Fernández), the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco (Ferguson), and the Mount Hagen people of modern New Guinea (Strathern...
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At the End of the Rainbow? Gold, Land, and People in the Brazilian Amazon

Robin L. Anderson
Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 530–531.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-77.3.530
Published: 01 August 1997
.... Gordon MacMillan begins with some short and succinct background on the various niches where humans have settled in the basin. Chapter 2 tells a remarkable story of the intense gold rush in Roraima, much of it inside the Yanomami reserve. It reads like an adventure story, almost impossible to put down...
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Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933

Jonathan D. Hill
Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 779–780.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-79.4.779
Published: 01 November 1999
... organization, myth, ritual, and history into his historiography. Anthropologists will no doubt want more complete treatment of the delicate subject of ritual cannibalism (e.g., recent studies of Yanomami, Araweté, and Tupí-Guaraní practices). On myth and oral history, Stanfield writes that “myth defines...
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How Brazil Acquired Roraima

John Hemming
Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (2): 295–325.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-70.2.295
Published: 01 May 1990
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Napalm Colonization: Native Peoples in Brazil's Aeronautical Frontiers

Felipe Fernandes Cruz
Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 461–489.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-9051833
Published: 01 August 2021
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Hans Staden and the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism

Neil L. Whitehead
Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (4): 721–751.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-80-4-721
Published: 01 November 2000
... prejudicial to the human subjects of those musings. So much is evident from the case of the Yanomami of Brazil and Venezuela whose representation by anthropologists as “fierce” may have served also to legitimate and justify military and criminal actions against them. 68 The argument made here...
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Author and Title Index

Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (1): 1–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.1.1
Published: 01 February 1996
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