Comparative Arawakan Histories

Author : Jonathan D. Hill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091507
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Arawakan Histories written by Jonathan D. Hill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alf Hornborg
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607320959
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia written by Alf Hornborg and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Amazonia. The evidence, however, suggests a much more fluid relationship among geography, language use, ethnic identity, and genetics. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia, leading linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists interpret their research from a unique nonessentialist perspective to form a more accurate picture of the ethnolinguistic diversity in this area. Revealing how ethnic identity construction is constantly in flux, contributors show how such processes can be traced through different ethnic markers such as pottery styles and languages. Scholars and students studying lowland South America will be especially interested, as will anthropologists intrigued by its cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach.

Author : Elena Mihas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245378
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual written by Elena Mihas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive bilingual collection of Ashâeninka Perenâe Arawakan oral literature, including traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts of old customs and rituals, contemporary women's autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches"--

Author : Loretta O'Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867989
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Native Languages of South America written by Loretta O'Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution.

Author : Jeb J. Card
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809333163
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture written by Jeb J. Card and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, archaeologists have used the terms hybrid and hybridity with increasing frequency to describe and interpret forms of material culture. Hybridity is a way of viewing culture and human action that addresses the issue of power differentials between peoples and cultures. This approach suggests that cultures are not discrete pure entities but rather are continuously transforming and recombining. The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture discusses this concept and its relationship to archaeological classification and the emergence of new ethnic group identities. This collection of essays provides readers with theoretical and concrete tools for investigating objects and architecture with discernible multiple influences. The twenty-one essays are organized into four parts: ceramic change in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean; ethnicity and material culture in pre-Hispanic and colonial Latin America; culture contact and transformation in technological style; and materiality and identity. The media examined include ceramics, stone and glass implements, textiles, bone, architecture, and mortuary and bioarchaeological artifacts from North, South, and Central America, Hawai‘i, the Caribbean, Europe, and Mesopotamia. Case studies include Bronze Age Britain, Iron Age and Roman Europe, Uruk-era Turkey, African diasporic communities in the Caribbean, pre-Spanish and Pueblo revolt era Southwest, Spanish colonial impacts in the American Southeast, Central America, and the Andes, ethnographic Amazonia, historic-era New England and the Plains, the Classic Maya, nineteenth-century Hawai‘i, and Upper Paleolithic Europe. The volume is carefully detailed with more than forty maps and figures and over twenty tables. The work presented in The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture comes from researchers whose questions and investigations recognized the role of multiple influences on the people and material they study. Case studies include experiments in bone working in middle Missouri; images and social relationships in prehistoric and Roman Europe; technological and material hybridity in colonial Peruvian textiles; ceramic change in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean; and flaked glass tools from the leprosarium at Kalawao, Moloka‘i. The essays provide examples and approaches that may serve as a guide for other researchers dealing with similar issues.

Author : Siân Pooley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785331515
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parenthood between Generations written by Siân Pooley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent literature has identified modern “parenting” as an expert-led practice—one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make—and break—relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.

Author : Michael Heckenberger
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415945981
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ecology of Power written by Michael Heckenberger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Elena Mihas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766302
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) written by Elena Mihas and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashéninka Perené belongs to the Kampa group of the Arawak family, located in the central Peruvian Amazon in the foothills of the Andes mountains. While limited grammatical studies of Kampa languages exist, this grammar is by far the most comprehensive study of any language of this sub-family, and is one of only two or three comparable studies of Arawak languages more generally.

Author : Claudius Henricus de Goeje
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arawak Language of Guiana written by Claudius Henricus de Goeje and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman E. Whitten
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056485
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Histories of the Present written by Norman E. Whitten and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wellspring of critical analysis in this book emerges from Ecuador's major Indigenous Uprising of 1990 and its ongoing aftermath in which indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian action transformed the nation-state and established new dimensions of human relationships. The authors weave anthropological theory with longitudinal Ecuadorian ethnography to produce a unique contribution to Latin American studies.