Beyond the Visible and the Material The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière

by Rival, Laura M.; Whitehead, Neil L.

• ISBN13: 9780199244751
• ISBN10: 0199244758
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This title includes the following features: Contributes to thesubstantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography; Written by eminentspecialists in their fields; Highlights differences in cultural and socialanthropological approaches

Table of Contents

Peter Riviere	vii
David Parkin
Notes on Contributors	xi
List of Figures	xvi
List of Maps	xviii
List of Tables	xix
Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere	1	(18)
Laura Rival
Neil Whitehead
Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality	19	(26)
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro	45	(12)
Anne-Christine Taylor
Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Significance of Bitter Manioc Cultivation	57	(24)
Laura Rival
The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon	81	(20)
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil
Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestor Spirits	101	(22)
Philippe Erikson
From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon	123	(34)
Kaj Arhem
The Composition of Mebengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil	157	(20)
Vanessa Lea
Piercing Distinctions: Making and Remaking the Social Contract in the North-West Amazon	177	(20)
Janet Chernela
Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas	197	(24)
Paul Henley
Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure	221	(14)
Audrey Butt Colson
Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana	235	(12)
Neil Whitehead
Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North-West Amazonia	247	(16)
Thomas Griffiths
The Hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender	263	(10)
Claire Lorrain
References	273	(24)
Index	297