Beyond the Visible and the Material

The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière

Neil L Whitehead editor Laura M Rival editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:13th Dec '01

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The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of Peter Rivière, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. This international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics which include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation and analysis, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking. In addition the ethnology of the Guianas receives particular emphasis, as do the themes of shamanism, history, and colonialism as they have affected this region. In showing how alive the field of Amazonian anthropology has become, whilst pointing to conceptual aspects in need of further elaboration, the contributors demonstrate their shared conviction that the impact of Amazonian ethnology is becoming comparable to that of African ethnology in the 1950s and Melanesian ethnology in the 1980s.

Whitehead does a superb job at showing the complex relationships among history, coloniality, border-transformation, culture, and local knowledge. * Michael A. Uzendoski, Florida State University *

ISBN: 9780199244768

Dimensions: 242mm x 163mm x 22mm

Weight: 459g

318 pages