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Refiguring Palmares, Richard Price

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

In this methodological/poetical exercise, the author attempts a mind-game in which he reads through the primary and secondary sources on the great seventeenth-century Brazilian quilombo of Palmares, drawing on his knowledge of Maroon societies elsewhere in the Americas, in order to imagine the institutions of that quilombo from their own, rather than outside observers’, perspectives. Using oral testimonies from the descendants of Maroons in Suriname, and comparing them to outsiders’ views of those societies as recorded in archives, he tries to better evoke the cultural institutions that would have existed in Palmares.

Dans cet essai, à la fois méthodolgique et …

Families Of The Forest: The Matsigenka Indians Of The Peruvian Amazon, Gerald Weiss

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

Book review of Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon. AllenJohnson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvii + 258 pp.,maps, tables, figures, glossary, references, index. ISBN 0-520-23242-9.

La Voz De Kultrun En La Modernidad: Tradición Y Cambio En La Terapéutica De Siete Machi Mapuche (The Kultrun’S Voice In Modernity: Tradition And Change In The Therapeutics Of Seven Mapuche Machi), Marcelo Fiorini

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

Book review of La Voz de Kultrun en la Modernidad: Tradición y Cambio en la Terapéutica de Siete Machi Mapuche (The Kultrun’s Voice in Modernity: Tradition and Change in the Therapeutics of Seven Mapuche Machi). Ana Mariella Bacigalupo. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2001. 271 pp. ISBN 956-14-0623-2

A Fresh Look At Amazon Indians: Karl Von Den Steinen And Curt Nimuendajú, Giants Of Brazilian Anthropology, John Hemming

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

This essay examines two German anthropologists who changed the style of Brazilian anthropology. Karl von den Steinen made first contact with eight peoples of the upper Xingu in the 1880s. His anthropological observations were accurate and valuable, and he was the first to describe indigenous people as individual human beings. Curt Nimuendajú also had no formal training, but was on an anthropological or archaeological expedition every year between 1905–1945, produced a prodigious volume of writing, studied shattered tribal remnants as well as newly contacted peoples, and was a pioneer in championing indigenous rights. Both were seminal figures in the study …

Trekking Through History: The Huaorani Of Amazonia, Norman E. Whitten Jr

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

Book review of, Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonia. Laura M. Rival.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xx + 246 pp., plates, maps,

tables, figures, notes, references, index. ISBN 0-231-11844-9.

The Indians And Brazil, Debra S. Picchi

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

Book review of The Indians and Brazil. Mercio Pereira Gomes. Translated by John W. Moon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. xvi + 300 pp., notes, appendices, bibliography. ISBN 0-8130-1720-3.

The Brazilian People: The Formation And Meaning Of Brazil, William Balee

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

Book review of The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil. Darcy Ribeiro. Gregory Rabassa (transl.). Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida,2000. xviii + 332 pp., bibliography. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8130-1777-7.

Pedro Casanto’S Nightmares: Lucid Dreaming In Amazonia And The New Age Movement, Fernando Santos-Granero

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

Taking as a point of departure the recurring nightmares of a Yanesha boy, the author examines the dream theories and practices of Yanesha people of Peruvian Amazonia. Particular emphasis is placed on the conscious manipulation of actions taking place in nightmares. This practice, common to many indigenous peoples throughout the world, has become known in Western tradition as “lucid dreaming.” The author explores how New Age thinkers and entrepreneurs have adopted this and other connected indigenous dream practices by means of “simulation,” a mode of appropriating the magic of “Others” that, in the context of globalized neocolonial encounters, appears as …

Kayapó Ethnoecology And Culture, Warren M. Hern

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

Book review of Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture. Darrel A. Posey (Kristina Plenderleith, editor). New York: Routledge, 2002. xviii + 285 pp., figures, tables, foreword, glossary, index. ISBN 0-415-27791-4.

Introduction: Politics And Religion In Amazonia, Jeffrey D. Ehrenreich, Javier Ruedas

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

The history of the papers in this special issue of Tipiti.

Animism, Cannibalism, And Pet-Keeping Among The Guajá Of Eastern Amazonia, Loretta A. Cormier

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

Recent work in Amazonian religion, sociality, and ecological adaptation have addressed the interrelationships among animism, cannibalism, and pet-keeping. In this article, I attempt to reconcile these works with the beliefs and behaviors of the Guajá of eastern Amazonia. I argue that the specific configuration of animism, cannibalism, and pet-keeping among the Guajá relates to their social organization and mode of production as hunter-gatherers.

Obras recentes tratando da religião, socialidade, e adaptação ecológica na Amazonia têm demonstrado as relações entre o animismo, o canibalismo, e a prática de criar animais de estimação. Neste trabalho, eu tento reconciliar estas obras com as …

Transformando Os Deuses. Os Múltiplos Sentidos Da Conversão Entre Os Povos Indígenas No Brasil, John Hemming

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

Book review of Transformando os Deuses. Os múltiplos sentidos da conversão entre os povos indígenas no Brasil. Robin M. Wright, editor. Campinas, SP (Brazil): Editora da Unicamp, 1999. 547 pp. ISBN 85-268-0451-0.

Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism In An Amazonian Society, James R. Welch

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

Book review of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Beth A. Conklin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xxxi + 285 pp., appendices, notes, references, index. ISBN 0-292-071232-4.

Entangled Edens: Visions Of The Amazon, Robert L. Carneiro

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

Book review of Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. Candace Slater. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 332 pp., chronology of key dates, glossary, notes, index. ISBN 0-520-22641-0.

The Beautiful And The Common: Inequalities Of Value And Revolving Hierarchy Among The Kayapó, Terence Turner

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

This paper addresses the nature of hierarchy in indigenous Amazonian and Central Brazilian societies. It takes as its point of departure an analysis of the production and distribution of social value among the Kayapó, considered as representative of the Gê and similar societies like the Mundurucú, Tapirapé, Karajá, and Bororo. This analysis proceeds from the proposition that “production” in such societies is primarily organized as the process of forming social persons and the values associated with their attributes. It proceeds to show how these values are unequally distributed through an exploitative institutional structure based on matri-uxorilocal residence and the subordination …

The Enigma Of The Great Cities: Body And State In Amazonia, Michael J. Heckenberger

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

This paper discusses issues of political power in Amazonia, particularly with regard to traditional definitions of the State, in general, and the body or person in Amazonia. Using the historical ethnography of the Upper Xingu region of southern Amazonia as a point of departure, issues of inequality, hierarchy, and social complexity are briefly discussed. Specifically, it is suggested that Xinguano cultural patterns, considered over the long term (circa 800 C.E.–present), show evidence of social hierarchy and regional organization considered characteristic of so-called complex societies elsewhere. As is true in many ancient states and chiefdoms, power is based on strategic control …

Archaeology In Latin America, Peter W. Stahl

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

Book review of Archaeology in Latin America. Gustavo G. Politis and Benjamin Alberti, editors. London: Routledge, 1999. xiv + 286 pp., figures, tables, index. ISBN 0-415-22158-7.

Gender And Sociality In Amazonia: How Real People Are Made, Javier Ruedas

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

Book review of Gender and Sociality in Amazonia: How Real People Are Made. Cecilia McCallum. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001. xii + 208 pp., figures, table, references, glossary, index. ISBN 1-85973-449-9.

Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer In The Margins Of History, David Stoll

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

Book review of Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer in the Margins of History. Steven Rubenstein. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxv + 322 pp., afterword, charts, cast of characters, glossary, notes, references, index. ISBN0-8032-8988-X.

Viviendo Bien: Genero Y Fertilidad Entre Los Airo-Pai De La Amazonia Peruana, Steven Romanoff

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

Various book reviews:

Viviendo Bien: Genero y Fertilidad entre los Airo-Pai de la Amazonia Peruana [Living Well: Gender and Fertility among the Airo-Pai of the Peruvian Amazon]. Luisa Elva Belaunde. Lima: Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica and Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Fondo Editorial, 2001. 268 pp. ISBN: 9972-608-13-1.

Ver, Saber, Poder: Chamanismo de los Yagua de la Amazonía Peruana [Vision, Knowledge, Power: Shamanism of the Yagua of the Peruvian Amazon]. Jean- Pierre Chaumeil. Lima, Peru: Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica; Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA); Centro Argentino de Etnología Americana (CAEA-CONIDET), 1998. …

Irving Goldman (1911­–2002): A Brief Remembrance, Jean E. Jackson

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

No abstract provided.

Regionalism And Cultural Identity In Western Amazonia, Donald Pollock

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

In this I article examine some of the processes by which new representational strategies are being developed by indigenous communities in western Brazil. While language has long been a marker of identity among indigenous groups, more recent political and economic forces have led to the emergence of forms of identity that transcend traditional language differences. Regionality, for example, has become a potent conceptual field for new forms of identity in western Brazil, but it subtly incorporates the concept of land, linking indigenous identity struggles in this area to the broader problem of land in Brazil.

Este artigo examina os processos …

Being A Real Man: In Memory Of Grompes, Kenneth M. Kensinger

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

The author reminisces on the life of Grompes, the headman of the Cashinahua village of Balta on the Curanja River of southeastern Peru.

El autor cuenta sus recuerdos de la vida de Grompes, el cacique del pueblo Cashinahua de Balta en el rio Curanja del suroeste de Peru.

In Amazonia: A Natural History, Michael F. Brown

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

In Amazonia: A Natural History. Hugh Raffles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xiii + 302 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). ISBN0-691-04884-3, ISBN 0-691-04885-1.

[www.pup.princeton.edu].

Indians, Markets, And Rainforests: Theory, Methods, Analysis, William H. Fisher

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

Book review of Indians, Markets, & Rainforests: Theory, Methods, Analysis. Ricardo A. Godoy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. xviii + 256 pp., appendix, references, index. ISBN 0-231-11784-1. ISBN 0-231-11785-X.

O Uso Ritual Da Ayahuasca, Laura Perez Gil

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

Book review of O uso ritual da ayahuasca. Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Wladimyr Sena Araújo (editors). Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil): Mercado das Letras / FAPESP, 2002. 686 pp. ISBN 85 85725-91-5.

Pacificando O Branco. Cosmologias Do Contato No Norte-Amazônico, John Hemming

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

Book review of Pacificando o branco. Cosmologias do contato no Norte-Amazônico. Bruce Albert and Alcida Rita Ramos, editors. São Paulo:Editora UNESP, 2002.532 pp., maps, plates. ISBN 85-7139-355-9.

Salt Of The Mountain: Campa Asháninka History And Resistance In The Peruvian Jungle, John H. Bodley

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

Book review of Salt of the Mountain: Campa Asháninka History and Resistance in the Peruvian Jungle. Stefano Varese. Translated by Susan Giersbach Rascón, foreword by Darcy Ribeiro. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xxxvi + 236 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8061-3446-1.

The Birds Of Ecuador: Status, Taxonomy, And Distribution. Volume I. The Birds Of Ecuador: Field Guide. Volume Ii, Peter Yaukey

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

Book review of:

The Birds of Ecuador: Status, Taxonomy, and Distribution. Volume I. Robert S. Ridgeley and Paul J. Greenfield (with the collaboration of Mark B. Robbins and Paul J. Greenfield). Ithaca: Cornell University Press (Comstock), 2001. xvii + 848 pp., foreword, bibliography, indexes. ISBN 0-8014-8720-X.

The Birds of Ecuador: Field Guide. Volume II. Robert S. Ridgeley and Paul J. Greenfield (with the collaboration of Paul Coopmans, and in association with The Academy of Natural Sciences). Ithaca: Cornell University Press (Comstock), 2001. xvii + 740 pp., foreword, bibliography, indexes, color plates. ISBN 0-8014-8721-8.