South American Indian Studies

Kenneth M. Kensinger, Series Editor

Leadership in Lowland South America

Number 1, August 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 45.76 MB)
Editor: Waud H. Kracke

Contents:

Series Editor’s Foreword by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Introduction by Waud H. Kracke
Factors Favoring the Development of Political Leadership in Amazonia by Robert L. Carneiro
Kagwahiv Headmanship in Peace and War by Waud H. Kracke
Leadership and Factionalism in Cashinahua Society by Kenneth M. Kensinger
I Saw the Sound of the Waterfall: Shamanism, Gods, and Leadership in Piaroa Society by Joanna Overing
Physical Substance and Knowledge: Dualism in Suya Society by Anthony Seeger
Waiting for the Inca-God by Michael J. Harner

Number 2, September 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 1.29 MB)
Editor: Terence Turner

Contents:

From Cosmology to Ideology: Resistance, Adaptation and Social Consciousness among the Kayapo by Terence Turner
The Carib Universe of People by Kathleen J. Adams
Death Comes as the White Man: The Conqueror in Kagwahiv Cosmology by Waud Kracke
Kanaima and Branco in Wapisiana Cosmology by Nancy Fried Foster
Huaorani and Quichua on the Rio Curaray, Amazonian Ecuador: Shifting Visions of Auca in Interethnic Contact by Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
When a Turd Floats By: Cashinahua Metaphors of Contact by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Warfare and Shamanism in Central Brazil: The Xingu National Park and the Panara by Stephan Schwartzman
Cosmology and Situation of Contact in the Upper Rio Negro Basin by Jonathan D. Hill
Cracks in the Cosmology and Indianist Defense by Irene Silverblatt
Conquest and Cosmologies by Thomas Abercrombie
The Social and Cosmological Replication of the Upriver-Downriver Dichotomy in Incaic Cuzco by R. Tom Zuidema
Cosmology, Value, and Power in Canelos Quichua Economics by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.

Number 3, October 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 735 KB)
Editor: Jonathan D. Hill

Contents:

Anthropological Discourses and the Expression of Personhood in South American Interethnic Relations: Introductory Remarks by Jonathan Hill
Symbolic Counter-Hegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar by Janet Wall Hendricks
The Self in Contact Situations: Kagwahiv Experiences of Domination by Waud H. Kracke
On the Transforming Nature of Toba Subjectivity by Elmer S. Miller
Person and Community in Western Brazil by Donald K. Pollock
Vaupés Indigenous Rights Organizing and the Emerging Ethnic Self by Jean E. Jackson
The Other is Dead by Bernard Arcand

Number 4, March 1994 (File format: PDF, File size: 58 MB)
Editors: Kathleen Adams and David Price

Introduction, Kathleen Adams and David Price
Demographic Change and Marriage Choices in One Carib Family, Kathleen Adams
What Is a Population? Spouse Import in the Northwest Amazon, Janet M Chemela
Demographic Crisis and Recovery: A Case Study of the Xavante of Pimentel Barbosa, Nancy Flowers
Observations about a Central Brazilian Indigenors Population: The Bakairi, Debra Picchi
Some Demographic Aspects of the Canela fndians of Brazil, Margaret E. Greene and William H. Crocker
Notes on Nambiquara Demography, David Price,
Cultural Change, Polygrny, and Fertility among the Shipibo of the Peruvian Amazon, Warren M. Hernr

Number 5, December 1998 (File format: PDF. File size: 917 KB)
Editor: Debra Picchi

Contents:

Unsettled Communities: Changing Perspectives on South American Indigenous Settlements by Debra Picchi
Settlement Patterns Over the Long Term in the Santiago-Cayapas Basin, Ecuador by Warren R. DeBoer
Archaeological Implications of Changes in Wachipaeri Settlements by Patricia J. Lyon
Settlement Pattern as Economic and Political Strategy: The Xavánte of Central Brazil by Nancy M. Flowers, Silvia A. Gugelmin and Ricardo V. Santos
Changing Perspectives on Cashinahua Residential Practices: 1955–1995 by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Dispersed, Nucleated, Dispersed: Changing Matses Settlement Patterns, 1969–1995 by James G. Matlock
Northern Arawakan Peoples and Extralocal Factors in the Venezuelan Amazon by Jonathan D. Hill
The Teleology of Kinship and Village Formation: Community, Ideal and Practice among the Northern Gê of Central Brazil by William H. Fisher