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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 56
Page 5
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 19
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 25
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 35
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 47
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Contents
LANGUAGES CULTURES | 19 |
From the Campa Cluster | 20 |
Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving | 74 |
Hierarchy Regionality | 99 |
Social Dissimilation and Assimilation | 147 |
On How the Paikwené Palikur | 171 |
A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion | 199 |
Multiethnic | 248 |
Prophetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan | 269 |
295 | |
Contributors | 327 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aikhenvald 1999a alliances Amapá Amáru Amazonia Amerindian ancestors Anthropology Apurinã Arawakan groups Arawakan languages archaeological Asháninka Aúkwa Baniwa Baré basin Brazil Campa Caraïbes Caribbean century chapter chiefs clans classification colonial common comparative confederacies Conibo culture area Curripaco endo-warfare ethnic ethnographic ethos European fricative consonant glottochronology Grenand guage Guainía hierarchy historical linguistics Hulme and Whitehead Iñapari indigenous interethnic Isana Island Carib Kariña Karipuna Kúwai Kuwé language family Lokono Lowland South America Maipuran Manao Matsiguenga method migrations missionary Mojos multiethnic myth mythic native neighbors northern northwest Amazon northwestern Amazonia organization Orinoco Orinoco River Pa'ikwené Palikur Pano phratries Piapoco Piro political pre-Andine Arawak processes Proto-Arawak reconstruction region relationships Renard-Casevitz Rio Negro ritual River riverine sacred Santos-Granero shamans shared social societies South America Spanish speakers subgroups Taíno Tariana territory tion trade tradition Tukano Tukanoan Ucayali Upper Rio Negro Vaupés Vaupés River Vidal villages Wakuénai Warekena Whitehead 1992 Yanesha Zucchi