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  • Art Effects

    Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia

    by Carlos Fausto ...
    Translated by David Rodgers ...
    In Art Effects Carlos Fausto explores the interplay between indigenous material culture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of artifacts and indigenous presences and addressing major themes in anthropological theory and art history to study ritual images in the widest sense. Fausto delves into analyses of the body, aerophones, ritual masks, and anthropomorphic effigies while ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Ownership and Nurture

    Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

    Edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto, Vanessa Grotti ...
    The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia

    by Carlos Fausto ...
    Series Book 96 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia is an ethnographic study of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, who inhabit the interfluvial region in the state of Pará, Brazil. This book analyzes the relationship between warfare and shamanism in Parakanã society from the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork, the book ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Structural Anthropology

    by Claude Levi-Strauss ...
    The structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals-kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Edited by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Tsewa's Gift

    Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society

    by Dr. Michael Brown ...
    Discover the spiritual threads that bind Amazonian life and culture.Tsewa’s Gift is a profound exploration of the cultural and spiritual life of the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. Anthropologist Michael F. Brown delves into the concept of tsewa, a spiritual force central to the worldview of the Aguaruna people, revealing how this belief system shapes social relationships, moral ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Repeating Island

    The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective

    by Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by James E. Maraniss ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

    by Rosemary A. Joyce ...
    Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Huarochiri Manuscript

    A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion

    by Frank Salomon, George L. Urioste ...
    One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochirí Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-defining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas. This translation by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste marks the first time the Huarochirí Manuscript has been translated into English, making it available to English-speaking students of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia

    Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory

    Edited by Alf Hornborg, Jonathan D. Hill ...
    A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

    Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

    Edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, Olga Ulturgasheva ...
    Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ‘western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ‘things’ such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Kuna Art and Shamanism

    An Ethnographic Approach

    by Paolo Fortis ...
    Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD