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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : myth and history / Jonathan D. Hill
  • Cauchu Uras : Lowland and Quichua histories of the Amazon rubber boom / Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
  • Righting history in the northwest Amazon : myth, structure, and history in an Arapaco narrative / Janet M. Chernela
  • The destroying Christ : an Aymara myth of conquest / Mary Dillon and Thomas Abercrombie
  • Time, narrative, and ritual : historical interpretations from an Amazonian society / Jonathan D. Hill and Robin M. Wright
  • The Josho Nahuanbo are all wet and undercooked : Shipibo views of the whiteman and the Incas in myth, legend, and history / Peter G. Roe
  • Images of resistance in colonial domination / Roger Rasnake
  • Cerebral savage : the whiteman as symbol of cleverness and savagery in Waura myth / Emilienne Ireland
  • Political memories and colonizing symbols : Santiago and the Peruvian mountain gods of colonial Peru / Irene Silverblatt