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The Lowland South American World

 
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The Lowland South American World provides both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers in urgent social, environmental and political issues in the contemporary world. It is a valuable resource for scholars and students of anthropology, Latin American studies and indigenous studies.

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The Lowland South American World showcases cutting-edge research on the anthropology of Lowland South America, providing both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers in urgent social, environmental, and political issues in the contemporary world.


Covering the vast expanse of a region that includes all of South America except for the Andes, its 40 chapters engage with questions of what ?Lowland South America? means as a geographical designation, both in studies of Indigenous Amazonian peoples and other lowland areas of the continent. They emphasize the multiple ways that local practices and cosmologies challenge conventional Western ideas about nature, culture, personhood, sociality, community, and Indigenous people.


Some of the region?s well-known contributions to anthropology, such as animism, perspectivism, and novel approaches to the body are updated here with new ethnography and in light of the varying political situations in which the region?s peoples find themselves. With contributions by authors from 15 different countries, including a number of Indigenous anthropologists and activists, this book will set the agenda for future research in the continent.


The Lowland South American World is a valuable resource for scholars and students of anthropology, Latin American studies and Indigenous studies, as well as history, geography and other social sciences.



"South America, particularly its lowlands, was once considered the least known continent. Fifty years of research have changed that entirely. This is more than evident in this compendium, which not only summarises the current state of the art, especially in Amazonian ethnology, but also includes innovative chapters on the cutting edge of the discipline, some of them written by indigenous authors. A true achievement."


Aparecida Vilaça, Professor of Social Anthropology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro


"From Guyana to Chile, from Ecuador to Argentina, this groundbreaking volume foregrounds Indigenous voices and Indigenous scholarship in situating the Lowland South American world today. Each one of the forty essays contained within offers a unique perspective, and collectively they address a wide variety of essential themes, from religion to politics, from economy to environment. The volume promises to be required and provocative reading for both students and scholars of the region for many years to come."


Magnus Course, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University of Edinburgh

Table of Contents:

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 ?Land without Evil? 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?mawün mew Gülu püle)  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. Darséa 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 A?uw? (Xavante) innovation within longstanding tradition  28. The Metaphysics of An Amazonian Tubology  29. ?Assembling? 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 Pataxó People in Northeast Brazil  34. Kuambü: 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: M?b?ngôkre-Kayapó Women?s 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