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 Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Description | xiii, 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 note | A 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-295) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001036816 |
| ISBN | 0199244758 |
| ISBN | 0199244766 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | F2519.1.A6 B48 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |