Comparative Arawakan Histories Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia First Edition by Jonathan D Hill,Fernando Santos Granero ISBN 0252027582 9780252027581

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ISBN 10: 0252027582

ISBN 13: 9780252027581 

Author: Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero

Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas. Comparative Arawakan Histories, in paperback for the first time, examines social structures, political hierarchies, rituals, religious movements, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora.

Table of contents: 

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 the 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 Savanna
6. 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 Region
10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia
11. Prophetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon

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