Beyond the Visible and the Material

The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924476-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of Peter Rivière, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. This international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics which include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation and analysis, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking. In addition the ethnology of the Guianas receives particular emphasis, as do the themes of shamanism, history, and colonialism as they have affected this region. In showing how alive the field of Amazonian anthropology has become, whilst pointing to conceptual aspects in need of further elaboration, the contributors demonstrate their shared conviction that the impact of Amazonian ethnology is becoming comparable to that of African ethnology in the 1950s and Melanesian ethnology in the 1980s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rival, Laura M.

Whitehead, Neil L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead: Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere

- 2: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality

- 3: Anne-Christine Taylor: Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro

- 4: Laura Rival: Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Signification of Bitter Manioc Cultivation

- 5: Jean-Pierre Chaumeil: The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon

- 6: Philippe Erikson: Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestors

- 7: Kaj Arhem: From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon

- 8: Vanessa Lea: The Composition of Me bengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil

- 9: Janet Chernela: Piercing Distinctions: The Making (and Remaking) of Social Contract in the North West Amazon

- 10: Paul Henley: Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas

- 11: Audrey Butt-Colson: Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure

- 12: Neil Whitehead: Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana

- 13: Thomas Griffiths: Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North West Amazonia

- 14: Claire Lorrain: The hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender