Revenge in the cultures of lowland South America / edited by Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine.

Other author Beckerman, Stephen.
Other author Valentine, Paul, 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2008.
Descriptionxxii, 314 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Revenge : an overview / Stephen Beckerman -- Revenge and reproduction : the biopolitics of caring and killing in native Amazonia / Beth A. Conklin -- Compelling exchanges : Curripaco revenge and warfare / Paul Valentine -- Guesting, feasting, and raiding : transformations of violence in the northwest Amazon / Janet Chernela -- On cannibalism, Yanomami warfare, temporality, and production of life / Catherine Alès -- Life for a life : Barí responses to murder in the Sierra de Perijá / Manuel Lizarralde -- Revenge, bride capture, and gender strategies for survival among the Waorani / Pamela Erickson -- Inca policies to contain revenge / Catherine Julien -- Canela vengeance : formerly compulsory, currently dissipated / William H. Crocker -- Revenge, envy, and cultural change in an Amazonian society / Carolina Izquierdo, Allen Johnson, and Glenn H. Shepard Jr. -- "The jaguar's pineapple" : Secoya shamanic violence and the dangers of cannibalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon / María Susana Cipolletti -- Social control, revenge, and identity among the Caura Ye'kwana of Venezuela / Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey and Paul Valentine -- Envy and revenge : the case of the Piaroa / Alexander Mansutti Rodríguez -- Animals' revenge / Suzanne Oakdale -- Onomastic vengeance and the writing of history / Daniela M. Peluso -- Vengeance, societies, and powers in Amazonian societies / Raymond Verdier.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-289) and index.
LCCN 2007032161
ISBN9780813031644 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813031648 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BF637.R48 R48 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold