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Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Volume 3, Number 2, December 2005

Including Special Section: The Body in Amazonia
Laura Rival, guest editor

Articles

Laura Rival                           Introduction: What Constituties a Human Body in Native Amazonia

Minna Opas                          Mutually Exclusive Relationships: Corporeality and Differentiation
                                              of Persons in Yine (Piro) Social Cosmos

Istvan Praet                           People into Ghosts: Chachi Death Rituals as Shape-Shifting

Fernando Santos-Granero    Amerindian Torture Revisited: Rituals of Enslavement and Markers of
                                             Servitude in Tropical America

Maximilain Viatori               New Bodies, Ancient Blood: "Purity" and the Construction of Zápara
                                             Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Article Abstracts

Commentaries

Debra Picchi                         On Rubenstein's "Steps to a Political Ecology of Amazonia"

William Fisher                      On Rubenstein's "Steps to a Political Ecology of Amazonia"

Book Reviews

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