The Lowland South American World

Re-imagining Lowland South America: An Introduction Part 1: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Histories 1. The Enigma of Ashaninka Endowarfare: Cultural Dictate or Historical Product? 2. Labor, Resistance, and Politics: Indigenous Agency in the Bolivian Rubber Boom 3. Christianity and Christians in Amazonia 4. Guianese Maroons in an Amazonian Ethnological Landscape Part 2: Myth, Memory and Storytelling 5. The Origin Myth of a Myth: The âLand without Evilâ Revisited 6. A Matrix of Knowledge: Indigenous Histories and Indigenous Anthropology in Brazil 7. The Work of Desire: Alterity and Exogamy in a Kotiria Origin Myth from the Northwest Amazon 8. Storytelling, Textuality and Experience in Lowland South America 9. Eras and Events: Contrasting Amazonian Narratives of the Past Part 3: The Substance of Life: Making Real People 10. Birth in Amazonia: Transforming Responsibility in the Care Encounter 11. Detachable Persons, Porous Bodies, and the Art of Love in the Argentinian Chaco 12. The Imports of Uncertainty in the Tragedy of a Man of Substance 13. A World More Bearable in Which to Live: Three Ethnographic Examples from Lowland South America 14. The ways of food and feathers: Revisiting the Bororo Literature Part 4: Land, Territory and Mobility 15. Darawate: Native Amazonian Trail Signals and other Ephemeral Plant Scripts 16. Regenerating Life: Indigenous Landscapes on the Atlantic Coast of Northeast Brazil 17 Language and Territory in Mapuche Ritual Practices in Chile (Zugun ka mapu mapuche gija±maw¼n mew G¼lu p¼le) 18. Paths and Networks Beyond the Human in Amazonian Social Worlds 19. Amazonian Environmental Activism at COP26: A Conversation with Uboye Gaba Part 5: Ownership, Mastery and Exchange 20. Child, Pet, and Prey: Relations of Dependence in Amazonia 21. Mastery Without Servitude: On Freedom and Dependence in Amazonia 22. A Politics of Regard: Action and Influence in Lowland South America 23. Pets and Domesticated Animals in Lowland South America Part 6: Gender, the Body, and the Senses 24. Dars©a Bhasera Numia: Tukana Women, Kumua Women, and their Transformation 25. Neither Witches nor Charlatans: Subverting Stereotypes of Shipibo-Konibo Women Shamans in Western Amazonia 26. Sick of School: Childhood, Gender, and Intergenerational Change in Guyana Part 7: Imagery, Materiality and the Visual 27. Indigenous Media in the context of Cultural Outreach: Reflections on Aâuwaº½ (Xavante) innovation within longstanding tradition 28. The Metaphysics of An Amazonian Tubology 29. âAssemblingâ the Xingu Indigenous Territory: A Kawaiwete Shaman and His Collection of Material Culture 30. Collecting Amazonia: Beyond Material Culture and Ethnological Museums Part 8: Language, Music, and Ritual Communication 31. Voices of the Spirits: Ritual Discourse, Musicality, and Communicative Ideologies in Amazonia 32. Geomythology of Musicological Rites: A Journey with Wild Dialogue 33. Indigenous Language Revival as a Practice of Resistance: The Case of Patxoh£ Language and Patax³ People in Northeast Brazil 34. Kuamb¼: The Poetics and Politics of a Xingu Ritual in Brazil Part 9: Indigenous Politics and Leadership 35. Voting in Lowland South America: Changing Relations Between Indigenous People and Nation-States 36. Beauty and Strength: Maº½bªng´kre-Kayap³ Womenâs Leadership and Governance in Brazil 37. Cultural Duality in Amazonian Ecuador: The Canelos Quichua Part 10: Education, Inequality and the State 38. The Sociocultural Dimensions of Education among River-Dwellers and Other Lowland Communities in Brazil 39. Water, Water Everywhere: Health and Sanitation in Indigenous Communities of the Amazon 40. Indigenous Agency, Isolation and Access to Justice