Histories and historicities in Amazonia [electronic resource] /

Histories and historicities in Amazonia [electronic resource] / edited by Neil L. Whitehead. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003. - xx, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

"Derives from a special session of the American Society for Ethnohistory that was part of a series of plenary sessions on global and local histories"--Introd. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.

From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawak-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Three patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memories : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Farage -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among the Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Makuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significance / Rafael Gassón.



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--Historiography.--Amazon River Watershed--Amazon River Watershed.--Ecology--Amazon River Watershed.--Amazon River Watershed.--Amazon River Watershed.


Amazon River Watershed--Colonization.

Indians of South America Indian cartography Indigenous peoples Ethnohistory Oral tradition