South American Indian Studies

South American Indian Studies

South American Indian Studies

Kenneth M. Kensinger, Series Editor

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 Kenneth M. Kensinger
  • Introduction by Waud H. Kracke
  • Factors Favoring the Development of Political Leadership in Amazonia by Robert L. Carneiro
  • Kagwahiv Headmanship in Peace and War by Waud H. Kracke
  • Leadership and Factionalism in Cashinahua Society by Kenneth M. Kensinger
  • I Saw the Sound of the Waterfall: Shamanism, Gods, and Leadership in Piaroa Society by Joanna Overing
  • Physical Substance and Knowledge: Dualism in Suya Society by Anthony Seeger
  • Waiting for the Inca-God by Michael J. Harner

 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 Terence Turner
  • The Carib Universe of People by Kathleen J. Adams
  • Death Comes as the White Man: The Conqueror in Kagwahiv Cosmology by Waud Kracke
  • Kanaima and Branco in Wapisiana Cosmology by Nancy Fried Foster
  • Huaorani and Quichua on the Rio Curaray, Amazonian Ecuador: Shifting Visions of Auca in Interethnic Contact by Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
  • When a Turd Floats By: Cashinahua Metaphors of Contact by Kenneth M. Kensinger
  • Warfare and Shamanism in Central Brazil: The Xingu National Park and the Panara by Stephan Schwartzman
  • Cosmology and Situation of Contact in the Upper Rio Negro Basin by Jonathan D. Hill
  • Cracks in the Cosmology and Indianist Defense by Irene Silverblatt
  • Conquest and Cosmologies by Thomas Abercrombie
  • The Social and Cosmological Replication of the Upriver-Downriver Dichotomy in Incaic Cuzco by R. Tom Zuidema
  • Cosmology, Value, and Power in Canelos Quichua Economics by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.

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 Jonathan Hill
  • Symbolic Counter-Hegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar by Janet Wall Hendricks
  • The Self in Contact Situations: Kagwahiv Experiences of Domination by Waud H. Kracke
  • On the Transforming Nature of Toba Subjectivity by Elmer S. Miller
  • Person and Community in Western Brazil by Donald K. Pollock
  • Vaupés Indigenous Rights Organizing and the Emerging Ethnic Self by Jean E. Jackson
  • The Other is Dead by Bernard Arcand

The Demography of Small-Scale Societies: Case Studies for Lowland South America

Number 4, March 1994 (File format: PDF, File size: 58 MB)
Editors: Kathleen Adams and David Price

  • Introduction, Kathleen Adams and David Price
  • Demographic Change and Marriage Choices in One Carib Family, Kathleen Adams
  • What Is a Population? Spouse Import in the Northwest Amazon, Janet M Chemela
  • Demographic Crisis and Recovery: A Case Study of the Xavante of Pimentel Barbosa, Nancy Flowers
  • Observations about a Central Brazilian Indigenors Population: The Bakairi, Debra Picchi
  • Some Demographic Aspects of the Canela fndians of Brazil, Margaret E. Greene and William H. Crocker
  • Notes on Nambiquara Demography, David Price,
  • Cultural Change, Polygrny, and Fertility among the Shipibo of the Peruvian Amazon, Warren M. Hernr

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 Debra Picchi
  • Settlement Patterns Over the Long Term in the Santiago-Cayapas Basin, Ecuador by Warren R. DeBoer
  • Archaeological Implications of Changes in Wachipaeri Settlements by Patricia J. Lyon
  • Settlement Pattern as Economic and Political Strategy: The Xavánte of Central Brazil by Nancy M. Flowers, Silvia A. Gugelmin and Ricardo V. Santos
  • Changing Perspectives on Cashinahua Residential Practices: 1955–1995 by Kenneth M. Kensinger
  • Dispersed, Nucleated, Dispersed: Changing Matses Settlement Patterns, 1969–1995 by James G. Matlock
  • Northern Arawakan Peoples and Extralocal Factors in the Venezuelan Amazon by Jonathan D. Hill
  • The Teleology of Kinship and Village Formation: Community, Ideal and Practice among the Northern Gê of Central Brazil by William H. Fisher