Beyond the visible and the material : the amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière / edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead.

Other author Rivière, Peter.
Other author Rival, Laura M.
Other author Whitehead, Neil L.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxiii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Forty years of Amazonian anthropology: the contributions of Peter Rivière / Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead -- GUT feelings about Amazonia: potential affinity and the construction of sociality / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Wives, pets, and affines: marriage among the Jivaro / Anne-Christine Taylor -- Seed and clone: the symbolic and social significance of bitter manioc cultivation / Laura Rival -- The Blowpipe Indians: variations on the theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon / Jean-Pierre Chameil -- Myth and material culture: Matis blowguns, palm trees, and ancestor spirits / Philippe Erikson -- From longhouse to village: structure and change in the Colombian Amazon / Kaj Århem -- The composition of Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) households in central Brazil / Vanessa Lea -- Piercing distinctions: making and remaking the social contract in the north-west Amazon / Janet Chernela -- Inside and out: alterity and the ceremonial construction of the person in the Guianas / Paul Henley -- Itoto (Kanaima) as death and anti-structure / Audrey Butt Colson -- Kanaimà: shamanism and ritual death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana / Neil Whitehead -- Finding one's body: relationships between cosmology and work in north-west Amazonia / Thomas Griffiths -- The hierarchy bias and the equality bias: epistemological considerations on the analysis of gender / Claire Lorrain.
General noteA collection of 14 papers contributed by worldwide colleagues in honor of Rivière's work as he nears retirement from the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-295) and index.
LCCN 2001036816
ISBN0199244758
ISBN0199244766 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks F2519.1.A6 B48 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold