Beyond the visible and the material : the Amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière

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Beyond the visible and the material : the Amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière

edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead

Oxford University Press, 2001

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A collection of 14 papers contributed by worldwide colleagues in honor of Rivìere's work as he nears retirement from the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-295) and index

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ISBN 9780199244751

Description

This volume explores the legacy of Peter Riviere, retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. An international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics which include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation and analysis, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere
  • 2. Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality
  • 3. Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro
  • 4. Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Signification of Bitter Manioc Cultivation
  • 5. The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
  • 6. Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestors
  • 7. From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon
  • 8. The Composition of Me bengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil
  • 9. Piercing Distinctions: The Making (and Remaking) of Social Contract in the North West Amazon
  • 10. Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas
  • 11. Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure
  • 12. Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana
  • 13. Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North West Amazonia
  • 14. The hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender
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: pbk ISBN 9780199244768

Description

The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of Peter Riviere, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. This international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics which include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation and analysis, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking. In addition the ethnology of the Guianas receives particular emphasis, as do the themes of shamanism, history, and colonialism as they have affected this region. In showing how alive the field of Amazonian anthropology has become, whilst pointing to conceptual aspects in need of further elaboration, the contributors demonstrate their shared conviction that the impact of Amazonian ethnology is becoming comparable to that of African ethnology in the 1950s and Melanesian ethnology in the 1980s.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere
  • 2. Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality
  • 3. Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro
  • 4. Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Signification of Bitter Manioc Cultivation
  • 5. The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
  • 6. Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestors
  • 7. From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon
  • 8. The Composition of Me bengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil
  • 9. Piercing Distinctions: The Making (and Remaking) of Social Contract in the North West Amazon
  • 10. Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas
  • 11. Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure
  • 12. Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana
  • 13. Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North West Amazonia
  • 14. The hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender

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