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Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia - Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)
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"Brings together an international collection of leading Amazonia
specialists to rethink some of the most fundamental categories
through which anthropologists have traditionally conceptualized
history and change. The result is a sophisticated interrogation of
the ways we normally think about indigenous Amazonian cultures and
a productive challenge to anthropology as a whole."--Donald
Pollock, State University of New York, Buffalo These groundbreaking
essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple
argument--that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic.
Change and transformation define the indigenous history of the
Amazon from before European conquest to the present. Based on
recent ethnographic fieldwork and firsthand analysis of indigenous
history, this collection examines the concepts of time and change
as they played out in areas ranging from religion, cosmology, and
mortuary practices to attitudes toward ethnic difference and the
treatment of animals. Without imposing traditionally Western
notions of what "time" and "change" mean, the collection looks at
how native Amazonians experienced forms of cultural memory and at
how their narratives of the past helped construct their sense of
the present and, inevitably, their own identity. The volume offers
some of the most interesting and nuanced discussions to date on
Amazonian conceptualizations of temporality and change . Carlos
Fausto is associate professor of anthropology at the Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional. Michael Heckenberger is
associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida.
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