An edition of Rethinking history and myth (1988)

Rethinking history and myth

indigenous South American perspectives on the past

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An edition of Rethinking history and myth (1988)

Rethinking history and myth

indigenous South American perspectives on the past

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English
Pages
337

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Table of Contents

Introduction : myth and history / Jonathan D. Hill
Cauchu Uras : Lowland and Quichua histories of the Amazon rubber boom / Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
Righting history in the northwest Amazon : myth, structure, and history in an Arapaco narrative / Janet M. Chernela
The destroying Christ : an Aymara myth of conquest / Mary Dillon and Thomas Abercrombie
Time, narrative, and ritual : historical interpretations from an Amazonian society / Jonathan D. Hill and Robin M. Wright
The Josho Nahuanbo are all wet and undercooked : Shipibo views of the whiteman and the Incas in myth, legend, and history / Peter G. Roe
Images of resistance in colonial domination / Roger Rasnake
Cerebral savage : the whiteman as symbol of cleverness and savagery in Waura myth / Emilienne Ireland
Political memories and colonizing symbols : Santiago and the Peruvian mountain gods of colonial Peru / Irene Silverblatt
History, myth, and social consciousness among the Kayapó of central Brazil / Terence Turner
Indian voices : contact experienced and expressed / Alcida Ramos
Commentary : ethno-ethnohistory : myth and history in native South American representations of contact with Western society / Terence Turner
Commentary : historical and mythic evocations of Chthonian power in South America / Norman E. Whitten, Jr.

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [307]-329.
Rev. versions of papers read in 1984 at a session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver.
Includes index.

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Urbana

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
980/.004/98
Library of Congress
F2230.1.R3 R47 1988, F2230.1.R3R47 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
337 p. :
Number of pages
337

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2529023M
Internet Archive
rethinkinghistor00hill
ISBN 10
0252015436, 0252060288
LCCN
88004408
OCLC/WorldCat
17620403
LibraryThing
5422268
Goodreads
3565209
135798

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OL18258890W

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