Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia / Casey High.

By:

High, Casey, 1977- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780252097027

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F3722 .V538 2015

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Contents:

Becoming warriors -- Like the ancient ones -- Lost people and distant kin -- Intimate others -- Shamans and enemies -- Victims and warriors -- Afterword.

Summary: Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows how these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	F3722.1.83 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn904398596

Includes bibliographies and index.

Civilized victims -- Becoming warriors -- Like the ancient ones -- Lost people and distant kin -- Intimate others -- Shamans and enemies -- Victims and warriors -- Afterword.

Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows how these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.

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