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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.

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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.