Comparative Arawakan histories : rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia

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Title Page

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART 1: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES

1. The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America

2. Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization

3. Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving Knowledge of Arawak

PART 2: HIERARCHY, DIASPORA, AND NEW IDENTITIES

4. Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative 5. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace-Builders of the Bolivian Savanna6. Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia

7. Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa'ikwene (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Center and on the Edge at the Same Time

PART 3: POWER, CULTISM, AND SACRED LANDSCAPES

8. A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion 9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia

11. Porphetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon

References Cited

Contributors

Index