Space and Society in Central Brazil

A Panará Ethnography

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Av Elizabeth Ewart

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Hailed once as ‘giants of the Amazon’, Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and Society in Central Brazil is a unique ethnographic account, in which analytical approaches to social organisation are brought into dialogue with Panará social categories and values as told in their own terms. Exploring concepts such as space, material goods, and ideas about enemies, this book examines how social categories transform in time and reveals the ways in which Panará people themselves produce their identities in constant dialogue with the forms of alterity that surround them. Clearly and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students, scholars and anyone interested in the complex lives and histories of indigenous Amazonian societies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-11-21
Mått138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt384 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Antal sidor304
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780857857262

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Elizabeth Ewart provides a compelling ethnographic account of how the Panara, an indigenous group living in central Brazil, understand space and society ... This is a fascinating read that will be useful for students interested in ethnographies, indigenous groups, and the meanings and interactions of space and society. -- Andreza de Souza Santos LSE Review of Books Elizabeth Ewart very effectively analyzes an Amazonian group that only came into regular contact with the outside world in the 1970s, engaging with classic literature on the subject of Amazonian (specifically Ge) social organization to discover how that organization works in the present and by extension how it has probably always worked. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database