Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
Author(s): Jonathan D. Hill (Editor), Fernando Santos-Granero
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 29 Dec. 2006
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0252073843
ISBN-13: 9780252073847
Book Description
The first synthesis of the writings of ethnologists, historians, and anthropologists on contemporary Arawakan cultures
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Review
“A tour de force of scholarship by individuals at the very cutting edge of their discipline.” — Norman Whitten
From the Author
Jonathan D. Hill is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society.Fernando Santos-Granero is a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the author of The Power of Love: The Moral Use of Knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru.
About the Author
Jonathan D. Hill is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society.Fernando Santos-Granero is a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the author of The Power of Love: The Moral Use of Knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru.
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