2013 books Archives - Page 2 of 2 - SALSA - The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

September

ETHNICITY IN ANCIENT AMAZONIA ed. by A. Hornborg & J. Hill (2013)

September 11, 2014

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Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory Edited by Alf Hornborg & Jonathan Hill University Press of Colorado, 2013 A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg...

September

THE OCCULT LIFE OF THINGS ed. by F. Santos-Granero (2013)

September 7, 2014

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The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero University of Arizona Press, 2013 Native peoples of the Amazon view objects, especially human artifacts, as the first cosmic creations and the building blocks from which the natural world has been shaped....

September

MYSTERIES OF THE JAGUAR SHAMANS OF THE NORTHWEST AMAZON by R. M. Wright (2013)

September 5, 2014

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Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon By Robin M. Wright, with forward by Michael J. Harner University of Nebraska Press, 2013 Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa...

September

HIJOS DE LA SELVA / SONS OF THE FOREST by F. Bossert & D. Villar (2013)

September 21, 2013

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Hijos de la Selva / Sons of the Forest: The Ethnographic Photography of Max Schmidt Edited by Viggo Mortensen, with texts by Federico Bossert and Diego Villar Perceval Press, 2013 Hijos de la Selva / Sons of the Forest outlines the story of German Ethnographer and explorer Max Schmidt, and includes many...

July

Governing Indigenous Territories

July 1, 2013

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Governing Indigenous Territories: Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon By Juliet S. Erazo Duke University Press, 2013 Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not...