The Ecology of Power Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000–2000
In 1884 a community of Brazilians was "discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region, a group who even today are one of the strongest examples of long-term cultural continuity. Drawing upon written and oral history, ethn...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York
Routledge
2005
Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Vydání: | 1 |
| Edice: | Critical perspectives in identity, memory, and the built environment |
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| ISBN: | 0415945992, 0415945984, 9780415945981, 9780415945998 |
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- Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- PART I Visualizing Deep Temporality -- CHAPTER 2 Culture and History: The Longue Durée -- CHAPTER 3 Traces of Ancient Times -- CHAPTER 4 Social Dynamics Before Europe -- CHAPTER 5 In the Shadow of Empire: Colonialism and Ethnogenesis -- PART II Body, Memory, and History -- CHAPTER 6 Landscape and Livelihood: The Ethos of Settled Village Life -- CHAPTER 7 In the Midst of Others: Landscapes of Memory -- CHAPTER 8 Houses, Heroes, and History: The Fractal Person -- CHAPTER 9 The Symbolic Economy of Power: Plazas as Persons -- CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: The Pedigree of a Contradiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Orthography and Glossary of Indigenous Terms -- Index