The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000-2000In 1884 a community of Brazilians was "discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region, a group who even today are one of the strongest examples of long-term cultural continuity. Drawing upon written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology, Heckenberger addresses the difficult issues facing anthropologists today as they "uncover" the muted voices of indigenous peoples and provides a fascinating portrait of a unique community of people who have in a way become living cultural artifacts. |
Contents
PARTI Visualizing Deep Temporality | 29 |
The Longue Durée | 37 |
Traces of Ancient Times | 67 |
Social Dynamics Before Europe | 113 |
Colonialism | 143 |
Body Memory and History | 179 |
The Ethos | 191 |
Landscapes | 223 |
SocioEthnophysics | 302 |
The Symbolic Economy of Power | 312 |
The Pedigree of a Contradiction | 319 |
Notes | 349 |
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Orthography and Glossary of Indigenous Terms | 385 |
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