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Rethinking history and myth : indigenous South American perspectives on the past / Edited by Jonathan D. Hill.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1988.Edition: 1a edicionDescription: 337 p. : ilustraciones ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0252015436 (alk. paper)
  • 0252060288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 19 980/.004/98
LOC classification:
  • F2230.1.R3 R47 1988
Other classification:
  • 980.00498 | R438
Contents:
Contenido: 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.
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Versión revisada del documento leido en 1984 en un período de sesiones de la 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association en Denver.

Incluye índice.

Incluye bibliografía (p. [307]-329).

Contenido: 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.

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