TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Jonathan David AU - Santos-Granero,Fernando TI - Comparative Arawakan histories: rethinking language family and culture area in Amazonia SN - 9780252091506 AV - F2230 .C667 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Arawakan Indians KW - Congresses KW - Arawakan languages KW - Electronic Books N1 - "Written in 1999 and 2000 in preparation for the International Conference 'Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia'"--Acknowledgments; 2; Cover --; Title Page --; Copyright Page --; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569894&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -