Working Papers on South American Indians

Kenneth M. Kensinger, Series Editor

Studies in Hunting and Fishing in the Neotropics

Number 2, Spring 1980 (File format: PDF. File size: 3.87 MB)
Issue editor: Raymond B. Hames

Contents:

Editor’s Preface by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Introduction by Raymond B. Hames
An Analysis of Amazonian Hunting Yields as a Function of Settlement Age by William T. Vickers
Game Depletion and Hunting Zone Rotation among the Ye’Kwana and Yanomamö of Amazonas, Venezuela by Raymond B. Hames
Fishing and Hunting by the Barí of Colombia by Stephen Beckerman
Highland New Guinea Models in the South American Lowlands by Napoleon Chagnon
The Limits to Protein by Bernard Neitschmann

Number 3, August 1981 (File format: PDF. File size: 13.08 MB)
Editors: Kenneth M. Kensinger and Waud H. Kracke

Contents:

Foreword by Kenneth M. Kensinger and Waud H. Kracke
From Forest to Mouth: Reflections on the Txicão Theory of Substance by Patrick Menget
Protein, Protein, What is Done in Thy Name? by Jean-Paul Dumont and Marshall Hurlich
Knowledge and Praxis in Sanuma Food Prohibitions by Kenneth I. Taylor
Food Taboos and the Balance of Oppositions among the Barasana and Taiwano by Thomas A. Langdon
The Semiotics of Tabooed Food: Shokleng (Ge) by Greg Urban
Don’t Let the Piranha Bite Your Liver by Waud H. Kracke
Cubeo Dietary Rules by Irving Goldman
Food Taboos as Markers of Age Categories in Cashinahua by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Infancy Related Food Taboos among the Shipibo by Joan Abelove and Roberta Campos
Achuara Food Taboos by Pita Kelekna
Food Taboos in Lowland South America: A Discussion by Donald F. Tuzin
Protean Analyses of Food Taboos in Lowland South America: The Search for a Framework by Fitz John Porter Poole

Number 4, August 1983 (File format: PDF. File size: 39.43 MB)
Organizer and Convener: Jane Fearer Safer
Editor: Kenneth M. Kensinger

Contents:

Editor’s Foreword by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Introduction by Jane Fearer Safer
Shamanism and Leadership in the Gran Chaco: A Dynamic View by Elmer S. Miller
Ethnohistory of Andean-Montaña Contacts: An Abstract by Gertrude Dole
Organization Through Opposition: Dual Division and Quadripartition by Patricia J. Netherly
“Traditional” Ethnic Boundaries in the Central Northwest Amazon by Jean E. Jackson
The Llanos: Periphery as Center by Robert V. Morey and Nancy C. Morey
The Guajiro by Benson Saler
Bibliography

Number 5, July 1984 (File format: PDF. File size: 25.77 MB)
Editor: Kenneth M. Kensinger

Contents:

Foreword by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Sex and Food: Reciprocity in Cashinahua Society? by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Delights and Dangers: Notes on Sexuality in the Upper Xingu by Patrick Menget
Sexed Time by Bernard Arcand
Sex and Power in Siona Society by E. Jean Langdon
The Mehinaku Myth of Matriarchy by Thomas Gregor
Female Scarcity, Gender Ideology, and Sexual Politics in the Northwest Amazon by Janet Chernela
Bibliography

Number 7, March 1985 (File format: PDF. File size: 677 KB)
Organizer and Convener: Judith Shapiro
Editor: Kenneth M. Kensinger

Contents:

Foreword by Kenneth M. Kensinger
The Sibling Relationship in Lowland South America: General Considerations by Judith Shapiro
Looking for a Sister: Culina Siblingship and Affinity by Donald K. Pollock
Nambiquara Brothers by David Price
Cashinahua Siblingship by Kenneth M. Kensinger
Agnatic Sibling Relations and Rank in Arawakan Myth and Social Life by Jonathan D. Hill
The Sibling Relationship among the Uanano of the Northwest Amazon: The Case of Nicho by Janet Chernela
Sibling Relations in Lowland South America: A Commentary on Symposium Papers by Raymond C. Kelly
Comment on Siblingship in Lowland South America by Elen B. Basso
Bibliography