Of Mixed Blood is an ethnography of the native people of the Bajo
Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia. The people of this region
appear very acculturated when compared to better-known indigenous
Amazonian peoples. Peter Gow's analysis focuses on features of
social organization which would seem to demonstrate this most
clearly: the role of schools and recent land reform laws in the
definition of the community, and native people's claim to be `of
mixed blood'. By stressing that these claims are made by native
people themselves, he challenges the dominant vision of them as
passive victims of history. Dr Gow argues that when native people's
claims are viewed from the perspective of their own values, and in
the context of their creation of life through the productive
transformation of the forest and the commodity economy, they can be
seen to form a coherent part of kinship. Historical change is thus
revealed as interior to the ongoing creation of kinship for native
people, rather than alien to it. This study offers a new approach
to the issue of historical and ethnographic analysis of Amazonian
cultures.
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