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Archeological Impact Evaluations And Surveys In The Texas Department Of Transportation's Corpus Christi, Laredo, Pharr, And San Antonio Districts 2003-2005, Timothy B. Griffith, Ross C. Fields, E. Frances Gadus, Karl W. Kibler

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This document constitutes the final report of work done by Prewitt and Associates, Inc. (PAI), under a contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to provide archeological services in four TxDOT districts—Corpus Christi, Laredo, Pharr, and San Antonio. Under this contract, PAI completed Impact Evaluations and Surveys to assist TxDOT in meeting the requirements of their Memorandum of Understanding with the Texas Historical Commission and a Programmatic Agreement between the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Federal Highway Administration, the Texas Historical Commission, and TxDOT. The contract began on March 17, 2003, and the last work authorization was issued …

New Bodies, Ancient Blood: “Purity” And The Construction Of Zápara Identity In The Ecuadorian Amazon, Maximilian Viatori

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In this article, I explore how the Zápara in Amazonian Ecuador stress the biological side of their bodies, particularly the “purity” of their blood, as an indicator of the uniqueness of their identity. In order to imagine themselves as distinct from their Kichwa neighbors—with whom they share similar cultural and linguistic practices—Zápara assert that the essence of their difference resides in their blood, which links them in an unbroken continuum to their precontact ancestors. I argue that this new focus on blood purity represents a shift from cultural practices—speaking Zápara—to bodily attributes—having “pure” Zápara blood—as the primary basis for Zápara …

Amerindian Torture Revisited: Rituals Of Enslavement And Markers Of Servitude In Tropical America, Fernando Santos-Granero

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Western fascination with the body and all things corporeal has permeated millennial anthropology,capturing the attention of anthropologists working in different parts of the world. In lowland South America, Seeger, da Matta, and Viveiros de Castro (1979) called attention, early on, to the Amerindian propensity to use the body as the main instrument to convey social and cosmological meanings. In a now famous essay entitled “Of Torture in Primitive Societies,” Pierre Clastres (1974) suggested that Amerindian initiation rituals—always entailing some kind of torture and bodily modification—were meant to mark initiates not only as adults but, above all, as fellow and equal …

People Into Ghosts: Chachi Death Rituals As Shape-Shifting, Istvan Praet

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This article deals with the corporeality of the dead in native South American societies. Focusing on the Chachi of Northwest Ecuador, I question whether the separation of the dead from the living is best analyzed in terms of the lack of a body. While relevant in most ordinary circumstances, the division between having or not having a body hampers ourcapacitytounderstandcrisissituations,especiallywhensomebodydies. I then turn to the particular role played by “ghosts” during funerary rituals,and the ways in which mourners “shift shape” into visible and physically present ghosts, thus assuming the forms of the dead. I suggest that similar kinds of metamorphoses …

Mutually Exclusive Relationships: Corporeality And Differentiation Of Persons In Yine (Piro) Social Cosmos, Minna Opas

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In Amazonia, body is a central organizing element of social life. Recent discussions in Amazonian anthropology show,on the one hand, the multiple ways in which the body acts in the formation of social relations, and, on the other, how social relations work in the formation of bodies. Bodies are relationally constituted in the diverse embodied processes through which Amazonian peoples form, maintain and regulate relations to each other. It is in this same manner that people also relate to, and are transformed into, different nonhuman persons. This article examines these dynamics of the body among the Yine (Piro) of Eastern …

Introduction: What Constitutes A Human Body In Native Amazonia?, Laura Rival

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

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Quelques Remarques Sur Les Belgicismes Métalinguistiques, Jean-Nicolas De Surmont

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Of all Belgicisms, only a few have metalinguistic connotation and they have to be considered of special interest in this respect, even if the literature on French in Belgium has not addressed this issue specifically. This essay proposes some observations on these few important words, supported by recent lexicographical descriptions and data obtained through research undertaken in collaboration with Michel Francard of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium).

Archeological Impact Evaluations And Surveys In The Texas Department Of Transportation's Abilene, Austin, Brownwood, Bryan, Fort Worth, Waco, And Yoakum Districts, 2001-2003, Ross C. Fields, Karl W. Kibler, E. Frances Gadus, Douglas K. Boyd, Timothy B. Griffith

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This document constitutes the final report of work done by Prewitt and Associates, Inc. (PAI), under a contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to provide archeological services in seven TxDOT districts—Abilene, Austin, Brownwood, Bryan, Fort Worth, Waco, and Yoakum. Under this contract, PAI completed Impact Evaluations and Surveys to assist TxDOT in meeting the requirements of their Memorandum of Understanding with the Texas Historical Commission and a Programmatic Agreement among the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Federal Highway Administration, the Texas Historical Commission, and TxDOT. The contract began on 21 September 2001, and the last work authorization …

Digging City's History: Finds Show A Black Middle Class Had Once Thrived On Beacon Hill, Jenna Russell

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Online Exhibition By The Museum Of African Diaspora, Modou Dieng, Lauren Woods

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Review Of "Foul Means: The Formation Of A Slave Society In Virginia", Michelle Lemaster

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Free Frank Leaves Descendants A Legacy Of Freedom, Deborah Gertz Husar

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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African-American History Museum Opens Doors, Margaret Horton Edsall

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Blacks Pin Hope On Dna To Fill Slavery's Gaps In Family Trees, Amy Harmon

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Pan-African History: Political Figures From Africa And The Diaspora Since 1787, Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, Robert Trent Vinson

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, And Neoliberalism In Ecuador, Michael C. Cepak

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. Suzana Sawyer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xii + 294 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8223-3272-8.

Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians In The Twentieth Century, Donald Pollock

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century. John Hemming. London: Pan Macmillan, 2003. xxxiv + 855pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, references, index. ISBN:1-4050-0095-3.

The Origins Of Indigenism: Human Rights And The Politics Of Identity, Alcida Rita Ramos

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity. Ronald Niezen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xix + 272 pp., notes, references, index. ISBN 0-520-23554-1, 0-520-23556-8.

Gertrude Dole (1915−2001), Janet Chernela

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

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Emerald Freedom: “With Pride In The Face Of The Sun”, Norman E. Whitten Jr.

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Esmeraldas, Ecuador, became home to free African and Afro-Hispanic people in the mid 1500s. It is the only region in the Americas where self liberation— cimarronaje—of Afro-descendant people preceded slavery. It is also the region that soon gave birth to zambaje, the emergence of an African-Indigenous population. This article sets forth salient dimensions of historical and contemporary blackness before sketching the enduring and transforming cultural dynamics of this rain-forest littoral region of the neotropics by reference to cosmovision, the marimba dance, arrullos, chigualos, alabados, la tumba, and la tropa. Following this sketch I turn to political economy, cultural ecology, and …

Dark Shamans: Kanaimà And The Poetics Of Violent Death, E. Jean Langdon

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death. Neil L. Whitehead. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ix+ 310 pp., notes, index. ISBN 0-8223-2988-3.

On The Death Of Orlando Villas Boas And The Legacy Of The Villas Boas Brothers, John Hemming

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

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The Mystery Of The Cotton Tipití, Robert L. Carneiro

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In his article on the Arawak in the Handbook of South American Indians, Irving Rousecitesthe Taínoasusinga “cottontube”todetoxifybittermanioc.This “cotton tipití,” which is mentioned nowhere else, had always puzzled me. By going back into the early literature, however, it was possible to establish that this was an error based on the loose use of words by the chronicler Girolamo Benzoni in 1572. It is possible to conclude, therefore, that the cotton tipití never existed.

En su artículo en el Handbook of South American Indians, Irving Rouse menciona el uso de un “tubo de algodón” (“cotton tipití”) para exprimir el jugo venenoso de …

The Hunter-Self: Perforations, Prescriptions, And Primordial Beings Among The Jotï, Venezuelan Guayana, Eglee L. Zent

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This article is an ethnographic exploration of reproducing the self and life through hunting among the Jotï, a group of about 900 persons living along the slopes and intermountain valleys of the Sierra Maigualida in the Amazonas and Bolívar states of the Venezuelan Guayana. Jotï hunting knowledge, as conceived by the author, is an instrumental part of a lifestyle. This essay concentrates on the dynamics of Jotï hunting as it involves magic and ritual practices, mythology and ontology, ecological symbolism, and spirituality. Analysis of the symbolic components of Jotï hunting habits discloses a deep, complex, and holistic conception of reality, …

This Could Have Been Mine: Scottish Gaelic Learners In North America, Michael Newton

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies

The Scottish Gaelic learners' movement is a recent development in North America that parallels the mainstream Scottish heritage movement in some ways, but is strongly oppositional to it in others. This essay describes characteristics of this phenomenon by analyzing the range of people involved, their motivations for learning, their goals, the creation of community among learners, the interaction between language learning and discourses of ethnicity, and the interface between Gaelic learners in North America and native Gaelic communities in Scotland and Cape Breton Island.

Frederic-Andre Engel (1908-2002), Robert A. Benfer Jr.

Andean Past

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Gardens In The Desert: Archaeobotanical Analysis From The Lower Ica Valley, Peru, Anita G. Cook, Nancy Parrish

Andean Past

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Editor's Preface Andean Past 7, Daniel H. Sandweiss

Andean Past

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Alfred Kidder Ii In The Development Of American Archaeology: A Biographical And Contextual View, Karen L. Mohr Chavez

Andean Past

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Francis Allen (Fritz) Riddell (1921-2002), Jonathan D. Kent

Andean Past

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