Beyond the Visible and the Material The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviï¿½re

Name: Beyond the Visible and the Material The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviï¿½re
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ISBN: 9780199244751

ISBN-10: 0199244758

ISBN-13: 9780199244751

Edition: 2001

Authors: Laura M. Rival, Neil L. Whitehead

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Focusing on the anthropological development of Amazonia, this volume explores the legacy of Peter Riviere, a recently retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. An international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics that include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking.

Book details

List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 3318
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.29" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Laura Rival is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has written a number of ethnographic articles and papers on the Huaorani of Ecuador and the Makushi of Guyana. She is the editor of The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Approaches to Tree Symbolismand the co-editor of Beyond the Visible and the Material: the Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviï¿½re.




Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere




Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality




Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro




Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Signification of Bitter Manioc Cultivation




The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon




Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestors




From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon




The Composition of Me bengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil




Piercing Distinctions: The Making (and Remaking) of Social Contract in the North West Amazon




Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas




Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure




Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana




Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North West Amazonia




The hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender