Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in AmazoniaJonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas. Comparative Arawakan Histories, in paperback for the first time, examines social structures, political hierarchies, rituals, religious movements, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora. |
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... Amazonia Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero. Map 3. Location of Caribbean and Northeastern South American Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Sixteenth Century Map 4. Location of OrinocoiRio Negro Basin Arawakan Peoples and.
... Amazonia Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero. Map 3. Location of Caribbean and Northeastern South American Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Sixteenth Century Map 4. Location of OrinocoiRio Negro Basin Arawakan Peoples and.
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Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero. Map 4. Location of OrinocoiRio Negro Basin Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Eighteenth Century % 1 “C J/mi“ {-Ehju /' fl 1m 2130 _m.
Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero. Map 4. Location of OrinocoiRio Negro Basin Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Eighteenth Century % 1 “C J/mi“ {-Ehju /' fl 1m 2130 _m.
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... /mi“ {-Ehju /' fl 1m 2130 _m 103 Int-H!!Map 5. Location of Eastern Peru and Eastern Bolivia Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Early Eighteenth Century 10 Map 6. Location of Southern Brazil Arawakan Peoples and Their.
... /mi“ {-Ehju /' fl 1m 2130 _m 103 Int-H!!Map 5. Location of Eastern Peru and Eastern Bolivia Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Early Eighteenth Century 10 Map 6. Location of Southern Brazil Arawakan Peoples and Their.
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... Culture Area in Amazonia Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero. Map 6. Location of Southern Brazil Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Eighteenth Century 11 peoples entered into historical relationships with groups belonging to most.
... Culture Area in Amazonia Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero. Map 6. Location of Southern Brazil Arawakan Peoples and Their Neighbors, Eighteenth Century 11 peoples entered into historical relationships with groups belonging to most.
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... were more peaceful than their neighbors. There is plenty of evidence that Arawakan peoples did indeed practice raiding and enslaving of others; they had powerful war leaders, and in some cases they were known to Introduction 17.
... were more peaceful than their neighbors. There is plenty of evidence that Arawakan peoples did indeed practice raiding and enslaving of others; they had powerful war leaders, and in some cases they were known to Introduction 17.
Contents
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HIERARCHY DIASPORA AND NEW IDENTITIES | 97 |
POWER CULTISM AND SACRED LANDSCAPES | 197 |
References Cited | 295 |
Contributors | 327 |
Index | 331 |
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affiliation Aikhenvald alliances Amapa Amaru Amazonia Amerindian ancestors Anthropology Apurina Arawak-speaking Arawakan groups Arawakan languages archaeological Aukwa Baniwa Baré basin Brazil Campa Caribbean century ceramic Chamicuro chants chapter chiefs clans classification colonial communities confederacies Conibo culture area Curripaco defined diaspora eastern Peru ethnic ethnographic ethos European find first fricative consonant glottochronology Grenand Guainia Guiana hierarchy historical linguistics indigenous Amazonian influence initiation interethnic Isana Karina Karipuna Kuwai Kuwé language family Lokono Lower Urubamba Lowland South America malikai Matsiguenga migrations Mojos multiethnic myth mythic neighbors networks northwest Amazon northwestern Amazonia organization Orinoco River Pa’ikwené Palikur Pano Panoan phratries Piapoco Piro political population processes reconstruction reflect region relations relationships Rio Negro ritual River riverine sacred Santos-Granero shamans significance social societies sociopolitical South America Spanish speakers specific Taino Tariana territory tion trade traditions Tukano Tukanoan Upper Rio Negro Vaupés Vaupés River Vidal villages Wakuénai Warekena Whitehead Yanesha Zucchi