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Presents a collection of fieldwork and the theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. This book examines the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in various communities.

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"A welcome addition to serious scholarship directed at the uniting of history, historicity, ethnohistory, ethnology and ethnography."-Norman E. Whitten Jr., Ethnohistory -- Norman E. Whitten Jr. Ethnohistory "Whitehead and the other contributors are to be congratulated for forcing us to reexamine our ideas of what constitutes history and historical consciousness and to continue to insist that lack of literacy does not make 'a people without history.'"-S. Elizabeth Penry, The American Historical Review -- S. Elizabeth Penry The American Historical Review

Histories and Historicities in Amazonia

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      Publisher: MQ - University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780803298170, 978-0803298170
      ISBN10: 080329817X
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      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presents a collection of fieldwork and the theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. This book examines the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in various communities.

      Trade Review
      "A welcome addition to serious scholarship directed at the uniting of history, historicity, ethnohistory, ethnology and ethnography."-Norman E. Whitten Jr., Ethnohistory -- Norman E. Whitten Jr. Ethnohistory "Whitehead and the other contributors are to be congratulated for forcing us to reexamine our ideas of what constitutes history and historical consciousness and to continue to insist that lack of literacy does not make 'a people without history.'"-S. Elizabeth Penry, The American Historical Review -- S. Elizabeth Penry The American Historical Review

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