Beyond the visible and the material

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Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviere
January 22, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
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Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviere
January 22, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
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Table of Contents

Forty years of Amazonian anthropology: the contributions of Peter Rivière / Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead
GUT feelings about Amazonia: potential affinity and the construction of sociality / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Wives, pets, and affines: marriage among the Jivaro / Anne-Christine Taylor
Seed and clone: the symbolic and social significance of bitter manioc cultivation / Laura Rival
The Blowpipe Indians: variations on the theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon / Jean-Pierre Chameil
Myth and material culture: Matis blowguns, palm trees, and ancestor spirits / Philippe Erikson
From longhouse to village: structure and change in the Colombian Amazon / Kaj Århem
The composition of Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) households in central Brazil / Vanessa Lea
Piercing distinctions: making and remaking the social contract in the north-west Amazon / Janet Chernela
Inside and out: alterity and the ceremonial construction of the person in the Guianas / Paul Henley
Itoto (Kanaima) as death and anti-structure / Audrey Butt Colson
Kanaimà: shamanism and ritual death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana / Neil Whitehead
Finding one's body: relationships between cosmology and work in north-west Amazonia / Thomas Griffiths
The hierarchy bias and the equality bias: epistemological considerations on the analysis of gender / Claire Lorrain

Edition Notes

A collection of 14 papers contributed by worldwide colleagues in honor of Rivière'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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F2519.1.A6 B48 2001, F2519.1.A6B48 2001, F2519.1

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xiii, 301 p. :
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301

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OL17034829M
Internet Archive
beyondvisiblemat00riva
ISBN 10
0199244758, 0199244766
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2001036816
OCLC/WorldCat
47665247
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2413456
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