Rethinking history and myth : indigenous South American perspectives on the past /

Rethinking history and myth : indigenous South American perspectives on the past /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting
Other Authors: Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1988]
Subjects:
Indians of South America > History > Congresses.
Indians of South America > Religion > Congresses.
Description
Item Description:Revised versions of papers read in 1984 at a session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver.
Includes index.
(cont) -- History, myth, and social consciousness among the Kayapó of central Brazil / Terence Turner -- Indian voices : contact experienced and expressed / Alcida Ramos -- Commentary : ethno-ethnohistory : myth and history in native South American representations of contact with Western society / Terence Turner -- Commentary : historical and mythic evocations of Chthonian power in South America / Norman E. Whitten, Jr.
Physical Description:337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: pages [307]-329.
ISBN:0252015436 (alk. paper)
0252060288 (pbk. : alk. paper)