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Tradición, Escritura Y Patrimonialización. Anne-Gaël Bilhaut And Silvia Macedo, Editors. Quito, Ecuador. Abya-Yala. 2012., Natalia Buitron Arias, Grégory Deshoullière
Tradición, Escritura Y Patrimonialización. Anne-Gaël Bilhaut And Silvia Macedo, Editors. Quito, Ecuador. Abya-Yala. 2012., Natalia Buitron Arias, Grégory Deshoullière
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
The Languages Of Amazonia, Patience Epps, Andrés Pablo Salanova
The Languages Of Amazonia, Patience Epps, Andrés Pablo Salanova
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Indigenous Creolization, Amerindian Hybridity And The Invention Of Authenticity, Ernst Halbmayer, Catherine Alès
Introduction: Indigenous Creolization, Amerindian Hybridity And The Invention Of Authenticity, Ernst Halbmayer, Catherine Alès
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Systems Of Naming And Creolization: Authentic Acculturation And/Or Authentic Tradition? The Yanomami Case, Catherine Alès
Systems Of Naming And Creolization: Authentic Acculturation And/Or Authentic Tradition? The Yanomami Case, Catherine Alès
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Autodenominations: An Ethnographer’S Account From Peruvian Amazonia, Peter Gow
Autodenominations: An Ethnographer’S Account From Peruvian Amazonia, Peter Gow
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Mission, Food, And Commensality Among The Yukpa: Indigenous Creolization And Emerging Complexities In Indigenous Modernities, Ernst Halbmayer
Mission, Food, And Commensality Among The Yukpa: Indigenous Creolization And Emerging Complexities In Indigenous Modernities, Ernst Halbmayer
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
The Werewolf In Between Indians And Whites: Imaginative Frontiers And Mobile Identities In Eighteenth Century Amazonia, Mark Harris
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Imaging Amazonia In The 21st Century: Recent Brazilian Documentaries On Socio-Environmental Conflicts, Jeremy M. Campbell
Imaging Amazonia In The 21st Century: Recent Brazilian Documentaries On Socio-Environmental Conflicts, Jeremy M. Campbell
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Revealing Fires And Rich Diets: Macro- And Micro-Archaeobotanical Analysis At The Hatahara Site, Central Amazonia, Caroline Fernandes Caromano, Leandro Matthews Cascon, Eduardo Góes Neves, Rita Scheel-Ybert
Revealing Fires And Rich Diets: Macro- And Micro-Archaeobotanical Analysis At The Hatahara Site, Central Amazonia, Caroline Fernandes Caromano, Leandro Matthews Cascon, Eduardo Góes Neves, Rita Scheel-Ybert
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Numerous questions in Amazonian archaeology place great emphasis on the relationships between human groups and their environments, traditionally drawing inferences from ethnographic analogies. This analytical expedient is justified by the supposedly weak preservation potential of plant remains in the Amazonian environment; however, it is also rooted in a lack of collecting and systematic research of such botanical remains. This paper presents results of archaeobotanical studies undertaken at the Hatahara site, located in Central Amazonia. Analysis of macro and microbotanical remains produced direct evidence of relationships between humans and plants in pre-colonial Central Amazonia. Observation of microbotanical assemblages extracted from artifacts …
A Chronology Of The Introduction Of Domesticated Plants In Central Brazil, Myrtle P. Shock, Renato Kipnis, Lucas Bueno, Francini M. Silva
A Chronology Of The Introduction Of Domesticated Plants In Central Brazil, Myrtle P. Shock, Renato Kipnis, Lucas Bueno, Francini M. Silva
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
The paleoethnobotanical analysis of archaeological remains from two sites in central Brazil provides chronological data for the introduction of domesticated plants to the region. The sites of Lapa dos Bichos and Lapa Pintada, located in the northern portion of the state of Minas Gerais, are within rock shelters in limestone rock outcroppings. The dry conditions at the sites preserved both burnt and unburnt organic materials, including the seeds and fruits that were analyzed in this study. The chronological documentation for the introduction of domesticated plants is based on relative chronology from excavation stratigraphy and radiocarbon dating. The domesticated plants found …
Domestication And Dispersal Of Native Crops In Amazonia, Charles R. Clement, Fábio O. Freitas
Domestication And Dispersal Of Native Crops In Amazonia, Charles R. Clement, Fábio O. Freitas
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Recent decades have witnessed the rapid expansion of interest in and research on the domestication of crop plants worldwide. These species are the basis of the rise to dominance of Homo sapiens over the last 10,000 years. New techniques in archaeology and the expansion of molecular genetics are uncovering abundant evidence to support or refute old hypotheses about human domestication of crops and creation of food production systems that fueled population expansions and linguistic diasporas, and to raise new hypotheses. In Amazonia and elsewhere in lowland South America, archaeologists are starting to examine these hypotheses in earnest, and geneticists are …
Terras Pretas De Índio Of The Caquetá-Japurá River (Colombian Amazonia), Gaspar Morcote-Rios, Lauren Raz, Diego Giraldo-Cañas, Carlos E. Franky, Tomas León Sicard
Terras Pretas De Índio Of The Caquetá-Japurá River (Colombian Amazonia), Gaspar Morcote-Rios, Lauren Raz, Diego Giraldo-Cañas, Carlos E. Franky, Tomas León Sicard
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Amazonian dark earths, or terra preta, constitute archaeological evidence of ancient human settlements. They are distributed throughout the Amazon basin, especially concentrated along its major rivers. In the region of La Pedrera, on the Caquetá (Japurá) River in Colombian Amazonia, archaeological studies have demonstrated the presence of these fertile soils extending over areas of 3 to 5 hectares with an anthropic horizon that varies from 70 cm to 1.2 m in depth. Associated with the sites are faunal remains from fish, turtles, and small rodents, as well as a high density of ceramic fragments and botanical remains, including phytoliths, charcoal, …
Believing In The Gift: A Case Of Successful Relationships Of Exchange In The Colombian Amazon, Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin
Believing In The Gift: A Case Of Successful Relationships Of Exchange In The Colombian Amazon, Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Since the late 70’s, the Colombian anthropologist Juan Alvaro Echeverri has logged more than five years in Uitoto and closely related communities in the Colombian Amazon. His relationships with individuals there have been long-lived and surprisingly successful, in contrast with the often-noted disappointment of many philanthropically oriented outsiders—NGO agents, anthropologists, missionaries, government personnel—who come to find ‘their Indians’ to be too materialistic and demanding, and of the Indians who cease to find these would-be philanthropists generous, desirable, or even interesting interlocutors. This essay, meant to be both an ethnographic and theoretical exposition on the forms and implications of substance exchange …
Domestication Of Peach Palm In Southwestern Amazonia, Michelly De Cristo-Araújo, Vanessa Maciel Dos Reis, Doriane Picanço Rodrigues, Charles R. Clement
Domestication Of Peach Palm In Southwestern Amazonia, Michelly De Cristo-Araújo, Vanessa Maciel Dos Reis, Doriane Picanço Rodrigues, Charles R. Clement
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
The peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) is the only Neotropical palm domesticated by Native Americans. Its place of origin as a crop (B. gasipaes var. gasipaes) has been debated for more than a century, with three hypotheses currently in discussion: southwestern Amazonia; northwestern South America; or multiple origins in the distribution of the wild relatives (B. gasipaes var. chichagui). The small amount of archaeological data available supports the second hypothesis, but they contrast dramatically with the molecular-genetic analyses that support the first or the third, depending on how they are interpreted. On morphological grounds, two of the three types of …
Some Current Topics In Plant Domestication: An Overview With Particular Reference To Amazonia, Barbara Pickersgill
Some Current Topics In Plant Domestication: An Overview With Particular Reference To Amazonia, Barbara Pickersgill
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Amazonia offers some striking contrasts to better-known regions of the world, notably the Middle East, in which plants were domesticated. These contrasts are pertinent to attempts to formulate general principles of evolution under domestication, particularly now that some of these are being critically reexamined. Topics covered in this paper include a generally applicable definition of plant domestication; how domestication may be recognised archaeobotanically; the relative roles of conscious and unconscious human selection; when and how rapidly domestication occurred; whether the same crop was domesticated more than once; and where a crop was domesticated. The archaeobotanical record for Amazonia and the …
Amazonian Maize: Diversity, Spatial Distribution And Historical-Cultural Diffusion, Fábio O. Freitas, Patricia G. Bustamante
Amazonian Maize: Diversity, Spatial Distribution And Historical-Cultural Diffusion, Fábio O. Freitas, Patricia G. Bustamante
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Subsistence is one of the factors that determined the presence or migration of prehistoric human populations. At the same time, humans were largely responsible for the dissemination of important crop plants such as maize (Zea mays). Maize is the major domesticated species in the New World, with thousands of landraces that were shaped by environment and human culture. Genetic analyses of archaeological and indigenous maize samples were used to verify the occurrence in South America of at least two major introductory waves of distinct races of maize from its center of origin in Mexico. The first occurred around 5000 years …
Genetic Diversity And Differentiation Of Brazilian Bitter And Sweet Manioc Varieties (Manihot Esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) Based On Ssr Molecular Markers, Gilda Santos Mühlen, Alessandro Alves-Pereira, Charles R. Clement, Teresa Losada Valle
Genetic Diversity And Differentiation Of Brazilian Bitter And Sweet Manioc Varieties (Manihot Esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) Based On Ssr Molecular Markers, Gilda Santos Mühlen, Alessandro Alves-Pereira, Charles R. Clement, Teresa Losada Valle
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) originated in Amazonia and is the main staple for more than 800 million people worldwide; it also had a fundamental role as a source of calories for many pre-Columbian peoples, especially in Amazonia, where it was domesticated. There are two major groups of manioc varieties: sweet varieties have low amounts of toxic substances (cyanogenic glycosides) and may be consumed with minimum processing, while bitter varieties have a high degree of toxicity and must be detoxified to be safe before consumption. These groups are outcomes of divergent selective pressures. Natural selection probably maintains large amounts of cyanogenic …