Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia

Anthropological Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8130-4479-8
Verlag: Longleaf Services on Behalf of U of Florida Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Based on recent ethnographic fieldwork and firsthand analysis of indigenous history, this collection examines the concepts of time and change as they played out in areas ranging from religion, cosmology, and mortuary practices to attitudes toward ethnic difference and the treatment of animals. Without imposing traditionally Western notions of what “time” and “change” mean, the collection looks at how native Amazonians experienced forms of cultural memory and at how their narratives of the past helped construct their sense of the present and, inevitably, their own identity.<br><br>The volume offers some of the most interesting and nuanced discussions to date on Amazonian conceptualisations of temporality and change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fausto, Carlos

Heckenberger, Michael

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Carlos Fausto</strong>, associate professor of anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is the author of <em>Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia. </em><br><br><strong>Michael Heckenberger, </strong>associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida, USA is the author of <em>The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000–2000.</em>