Kenneth M. Kensinger, Series Editor
BENNINGTON COLLEGE
BENNINGTON VERMONT
05201
SALSA thanks Bennington College for authorizing us to post South American Indian Studies on this website. We hope this digital re-issuing will highlight the important roles played by Ken Kensinger and Bennington College in the history of lowland South American studies. Please read the more detailed acknowledgments below.
These materials are presented with permission from the copyright holders, Bennington College, for nonprofit educational and research purposes only, and are restricted from any use beyond these purposes. These materials may not be further replicated or disseminated without explicit permission from Bennington College.
Leadership in Lowland South America
Number 1, August 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 45.76 MB).
Editor: Waud H. Kracke
- Contents:
- Series Editor's Foreword by
- Introduction by
- Factors Favoring the Development of Political Leadership in Amazonia by
- Kagwahiv Headmanship in Peace and War by
- Leadership and Factionalism in Cashinahua Society by
- I Saw the Sound of the Waterfall: Shamanism, Gods, and Leadership in Piaroa Society by
- Physical Substance and Knowledge: Dualism in Suya Society by
- Waiting for the Inca-God by
Cosmology, Values, and Inter-Ethnic Contact in South America
Number 2, September 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 1.29 MB).
Editor: Terence Turner
- Contents:
- From Cosmology to Ideology: Resistance, Adaptation and Social Consciousness among the Kayapo by
- The Carib Universe of People by
- Death Comes as the White Man: The Conqueror in Kagwahiv Cosmology by
- Kanaima and Branco in Wapisiana Cosmology by
- Huaorani and Quichua on the Rio Curaray, Amazonian Ecuador: Shifting Visions of Auca in Interethnic Contact by
- When a Turd Floats By: Cashinahua Metaphors of Contact by
- Warfare and Shamanism in Central Brazil: The Xingu National Park and the Panara by
- Cosmology and Situation of Contact in the Upper Rio Negro Basin by
- Cracks in the Cosmology and Indianist Defense by
- Conquest and Cosmologies by
- The Social and Cosmological Replication of the Upriver-Downriver Dichotomy in Incaic Cuzco by
- Cosmology, Value, and Power in Canelos Quichua Economics by
Discourses and the Expression of Personhood in South American Inter-Ethnic Relations
Number 3, October 1993 (File format: PDF. File size: 735 KB).
Editor: Jonathan D. Hill
- Contents:
- Anthropological Discourses and the Expression of Personhood in South American Interethnic Relations: Introductory Remarks by
- Symbolic Counter-Hegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar by
- The Self in Contact Situations: Kagwahiv Experiences of Domination by
- On the Transforming Nature of Toba Subjectivity by
- Person and Community in Western Brazil by
- Vaupés Indigenous Rights Organizing and the Emerging Ethnic Self by
- The Other is Dead by
Unsettled Communities: Changing Perspectives on South American Indigenous Settlements
Number 5, December 1998 (File format: PDF. File size: 917 KB).
Editor: Debra Picchi
- Contents:
- Unsettled Communities: Changing Perspectives on South American Indigenous Settlements by
- Settlement Patterns Over the Long Term in the Santiago-Cayapas Basin, Ecuador by
- Archaeological Implications of Changes in Wachipaeri Settlements by
- Settlement Pattern as Economic and Political Strategy: The Xavánte of Central Brazil by
- Changing Perspectives on Cashinahua Residential Practices: 1955–1995 by
- Dispersed, Nucleated, Dispersed: Changing Matses Settlement Patterns, 1969–1995 by
- Northern Arawakan Peoples and Extralocal Factors in the Venezuelan Amazon by
- The Teleology of Kinship and Village Formation: Community, Ideal and Practice among the Northern Gê of Central Brazil by
Acknowledgements
The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America is pleased to present these issues of South American Indian Studies with the kind permission of Bennington College. SAIS originally appeared in five print issues, published at irregular intervals from 1993 to 1998 by Bennington College. Kenneth M. Kensinger served as series editor. Like Working Papers on South American Indians, the publication of SAIS was related to Kensinger's hosting of the lowland South Americanist summer meetings at Bennington College. Kensinger dedicated energy and enthusiasm to the task of facilitating the flow of information among lowland specialists. The Bennington meetings were one approach to this goal; the publication of WPSAI and SAIS was another. SAIS published mostly papers presented at sessions of the American Anthropological Association conference, where there was always at least one session dedicated to lowland South America. Papers presented at the Bennington meetings were also published in SAIS.
The idea to reissue South American Indian Studies on this website arose out of discussions that occurred on the SALSA email list following the passing of Kenneth Kensinger in May 2010. During this period of mourning, many people suggested we honor Ken Kensinger's memory through our website, and that reissuing SAIS could be an important way to do so. Newly elected president-elect Jonathan D. Hill organized the scanning of extant print issues and requested authorization from Bennington College and from individual issue editors for the project. We thank Bennington College for this kind permission. We also thank Carolina Izquierdo, who provided several issues from her personal collection so that they could be scanned for this website..
The black-on-white design of this page is an homage to the journal's original cover designs by Bertil Ostlinger. The SAIS logo is scanned from an original cover.