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050 00 $aF2519.1.A6$bA465 1994
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245 00 $aAmazonian Indians from prehistory to the present :$banthropological perspectives /$cedited by Anna Roosevelt.
260 $aTucson :$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9410
300 $axviii, 420 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Amazonian Anthropology: Strategy for a New Synthesis / Anna C. Roosevelt -- 2. The Ancient Amerindian Polities of the Amazon, the Orinoco, and the Atlantic Coast: A Preliminary Analysis of Their Passage from Antiquity to Extinction / Neil Lancelot Whitehead -- 3. The Impact of Conquest on Contemporary Indigenous Peoples of the Guiana Shield: The System of Orinoco Regional Interdependence / Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez and Horacio Biord -- 4. Social Organization and Political Power in the Amazon Floodplain: The Ethnohistorical Sources / Antonio Porro -- 5. The Evidence for the Nature of the Process of Indigenous Deculturation and Destabilization in the Brazilian Amazon in the Last Three Hundred Years: Preliminary Data / Adelia Engracia de Oliveira -- 6. Health and Demography of Native Amazonians: Historical Perspective and Current Status / Warren M. Hern -- 7. Diet and Nutritional Status of Amazonian Peoples / Darna L. Dufour.
505 8 $a8. Hunting and Fishing in Amazonia: Hold the Answers, What Are the Questions? / Stephen Beckerman -- 9. Homeostasis as a Cultural System: The Jivaro Case / Philippe Descola -- 10. Farming, Feuding, and Female Status: The Achuar Case / Pita Kelekna -- 11. Subsistence Strategy, Social Organization, and Warfare in Central Brazil in the Context of European Penetration / Nancy M. Flowers -- 12. Environmental and Social Implications of Pre- and Postcontact Situations on Brazilian Indians: The Kayapo and a New Amazonian Synthesis / Darrell Addison Posey -- 13. Beyond Resistance: Comparative Study of Utopian Renewal in Amazonia / Michael F. Brown -- 14. The Eastern Bororo from an Archaeological Perspective / Irmhild Wust -- 15. Genetic Relatedness and Language Distributions in Amazonia / Harriet E. Manelis Klein -- 16. Language, Culture, and Environment: Tupi-Guarani Plant Names Over Time / William Balee and Denny Moore -- 17. Becoming Indians: The Politics of Tukanoan Ethnicity / Jean E. Jackson.
520 $aThis edited volume draws on the subdisciplines of anthropology to present an integrated perspective of Amazonian studies. The contributors address transformations of native societies as a result of their interaction with Western civilization from initial contact to the present day, demonstrating that the pre- and postcontact characteristics of these societies display differences that until now have been little recognized.
520 8 $aIn particular, Amazon floodplain societies are shown to be more complex in terms of cultural development than previously had been supposed. Most chapters deal with some aspect of the ethnology of a specific tribe or group of tribes, or of Amazonia as a whole; others focus on archaeology, ethnohistory, biological anthropology, and linguistics.
650 0 $aIndians of South America$zAmazon River Region$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndians of South America$zAmazon River Region$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009126910
650 0 $aEthnohistory$zAmazon River Region.
650 0 $aSubsistence economy$zAmazon River Region.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zAmazon River Region.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122006
651 0 $aAmazon River Region$xSocial conditions.
700 1 $aRoosevelt, Anna Curtenius.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115057
852 00 $bglx$hF2519.1.A6$iA465 1994