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Shipibo Hunting And The Overkill Hypothesis, Warren M. Hern Dec 2007

Shipibo Hunting And The Overkill Hypothesis, Warren M. Hern

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

The "overkill" hypothesis, as promulgated by Paul Martin and others, is supported by evidence of asynchronous extinction of megafauna and other species in North America associated with the arrival of Pleistocene hunters in the Western Hemisphere. In this essay, further evidence—based on observations made of the response of a small party of Shipibo hunters in the upper Peruvian Amazon—is offered in support of the hypothesis. These observations were made during an exploratory tripinto the headwaters of a remote Amazonian tributary, a pristine area not occupied by human beings that was plentiful with wildlife. The Shipibo aggressively took the opportunity to …


Did The Kulinas Become The Marubos? A Linguistic And Ethnohistorical Investigation, David W. Fleck Dec 2007

Did The Kulinas Become The Marubos? A Linguistic And Ethnohistorical Investigation, David W. Fleck

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

This paper presents the results of a study designed to clear up confusion surrounding the ethnic and linguistic identity of several indigenous groups from western Amazonia that have been denominated “Kulina,” “Marubo,” or variants of these terms. Linguistic analysis revealed unequivocally that the term Kulina has been used to refer to three different languages, two in the Panoan family and one in the Arawan family, and that the term Marubo has been used to refer to two different languages in the Panoan family. To elucidate the ethnohistory of each of these five groups, the usage of the terms Kulina and …


Consuming Culture: Extralocal Exchanges And Kalinago Identity On Dominica, Kathryn A. Hudepohl Dec 2007

Consuming Culture: Extralocal Exchanges And Kalinago Identity On Dominica, Kathryn A. Hudepohl

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

Tourism is a significant global force affecting indigenous residents of numerous destination locales worldwide. This paper considers the effects of tourism on Kalinago ethnicity in the Commonwealth of Dominica. In this particular case, tourist consumption of indigenous handicrafts reinforces Kalinago claims to a distinct ethnic identity. Extralocal exchanges that occur as a result of tourism strengthen identity in part by heightening awareness of the ethnic boundary that differentiates the community from outsiders and by stimulating participation in traditional handicraft production. In addition to tourism, other types ofinteractions with outsiders, such as land boundary disputes and cultural borrowing from other indigenous …


Historical Assessment And Archeological Survey Of 4.9 Miles Of Fm 2092 From Menard To Fivemile Crossing, Menard County, Texas, Jennifer K. Mcwilliams, Douglas K. Boyd, Celine Finney Nov 2007

Historical Assessment And Archeological Survey Of 4.9 Miles Of Fm 2092 From Menard To Fivemile Crossing, Menard County, Texas, Jennifer K. Mcwilliams, Douglas K. Boyd, Celine Finney

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

This preliminary report describes historical research and an intensive archeological survey conducted for a 4.9-mile-long stretch of FM 2092 in Menard County by Prewitt and Associates, Inc. The work was performed for the Texas Department of Transportation in conjunction with a road improvement project beginning at the eastern Menard city limit and extending eastward to just beyond Fivemile Crossing. Crossing over Pleistocene and Holocene alluvial terraces of the San Saba River, the project area is located in a high-probability area for buried prehistoric sites and has a dynamic history of intensive use since Spanish colonial times. Investigations included geoarcheological mapping, …


The Celtic Legacy Of The Gaita In Galician Music, Xosé Lois Foxo Sep 2007

The Celtic Legacy Of The Gaita In Galician Music, Xosé Lois Foxo

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies

The paper focuses on the traditional music of Galicia with special emphasis on the gaita, or bagpipe, its persistence throughout the centuries as a symbol for the region, and its strong similarities with the instruments of Celtic regions such as Scotland, Brittany and Ireland. Samples of musical melodies from Galicia are included and compared to these areas, and their similarities are discussed.


Merits And Motivations Of An Ashéninka Leader, Hanne Veber Jun 2007

Merits And Motivations Of An Ashéninka Leader, Hanne Veber

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

Recent approaches to life history studies emphasize the power of biography in processes of social construction, highlighting the individual—storyteller and social being—as creative and created in relation to others. Situated in collective meaning systems and their dynamics, autobiographical narration is transformed into agency as it provides definitions of situations and encodes models for action. This essay discusses alternative interpretations of the autobiographical narrative of an Ashéninka leader, Miguel Camaiteri, in Peru's Upper Amazon, focusing on the exposition of his motivations for becoming an indigenous activist and contemplating the way his self-presentation is contingent upon the political agenda he is pursuing …


Introduction, Suzanne Oakdale Jun 2007

Introduction, Suzanne Oakdale

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

No abstract provided.


The Canela Diaries: Their Nature, Uses, And Future, William H. Crocker Jun 2007

The Canela Diaries: Their Nature, Uses, And Future, William H. Crocker

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

In 1966, three Canela Indians of Brazil started writing diaries about their lives and tribal events for me. Since then, I have collected about 150,000 manuscript pages and 2,000 hours on tape. About twenty-two diarists have contributed through the years, though never more than twelve at once. The Canela diary program grew out of my predilection for a personal approach to field work as well as my preference for qualitative over quantitative research methods. Excerpts from the diaries are included, one set to provide different points of view about a murder and others to show how I have used diarists' …


Anchoring “The Symbolic Economy Of Alterity” With Autobiography, Suzanne Oakdale Jun 2007

Anchoring “The Symbolic Economy Of Alterity” With Autobiography, Suzanne Oakdale

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

This essay addresses the usefulness of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's concept of the "symbolic economy of alterity" for understanding the subjectively meaningful historical details of individual lives. My focus is the autobiographical narratives of two Kayabi men from central Brazil whose lives have spanned the twentieth century. Their accounts show that these men do, in fact, speak of identity, with kin as being fashioned gradually out from alterity, in keeping with Viveiros de Castro's model. However, this process, when seen over a significant span of time, is highly reversible, causing others and selves to become very ambiguous figures with respect …


A Yaminahua Autobiographical Song: Caqui Caqui, Pierre Deleage Jun 2007

A Yaminahua Autobiographical Song: Caqui Caqui, Pierre Deleage

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

This essay proposes a theoretical framework of the relationship between autobiography and tradition. In support of this framework, I present a transcription and translation of an autobiographical song recorded among the Yaminahua (in the Western Amazon of Peru). My account of this song allows me to define an original discursive genre: the traditional autobiography. Two contradictory features characterize this genre. On the one hand, it is autobiographical because it makes reference to the personal life of the speaker. On the other hand, it is traditional in the sense that it is inherited from another speaker and faithfully reproduced. I explore …


Generational Transition Of Subsistence Fishing Practices In The Pacific Community Of Venado Island, Costa Rica, Maria D. Venegas Apr 2007

Generational Transition Of Subsistence Fishing Practices In The Pacific Community Of Venado Island, Costa Rica, Maria D. Venegas

McNair Scholars Research Journal

The goal of this ethnographic study is to document the way that tourism has affected the subsistence fishing activities on the island of Venado, Costa Rica. A key question is how tourism has forced the residents of this fishing community to make choices between a traditional economy and the need to survive in an expanding global market of ecological tourism. The method of research is ethnographic. The goal is to portray cultural issues through the life of the islanders. I hope that this research will create a better understanding of the cultural impact of global change on the people of …


Analysis Of A Celtiberian Protective Paste And Its Possible Use By Arevaci Warriors, Jesús Martín-Gil, Gonzalo Palacios-Leblé, Pablo Matin Ramos, Francisco J. Martín-Gil Mar 2007

Analysis Of A Celtiberian Protective Paste And Its Possible Use By Arevaci Warriors, Jesús Martín-Gil, Gonzalo Palacios-Leblé, Pablo Matin Ramos, Francisco J. Martín-Gil

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies

This article presents an infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis of residue adhering to a Celtiberian pottery sherd of late Iron Age date from the Arevacian site of Cerro del Castillo, in Ayllón (Segovia, Spain). This residue may be a paste used since antiquity for protective aims. Orange-sepia in colour, made from crushed bones and glue, the paste was used by Greeks and Romans and later in the construction of the cathedrals and monasteries of Europe to confer a warm colour to the stone and to protect it against environmental deterioration. In this article we also suggest a possible ritual …


Archaeology, Language, And The African Past, Roger Blench Mar 2007

Archaeology, Language, And The African Past, Roger Blench

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Archeological Investigations And National Register Testing At 41cv163, Coryell County, Texas, John E. Dockall, Jennifer K. Mcwilliams, Karl W. Kibler Mar 2007

Archeological Investigations And National Register Testing At 41cv163, Coryell County, Texas, John E. Dockall, Jennifer K. Mcwilliams, Karl W. Kibler

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

Prewitt and Associates, Inc. (PAI), conducted archeological testing of 41CV1636 for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Environmental Affairs Division, under Contract No. 575XXSA006 (Work Authorization No. 57530SA006) and Texas Antiquities Permit No. 3980 from the Texas Historical Commission. Site 41CV1636 is situated in northwestern Coryell County, approximately 13 km east of Evant, Texas. The site was located during an archeological survey for a proposed roadway widening project along U.S. Highway 84. Proposed design plans required an additional 5 m of new right of way that would directly impact 41CV1636. Site 41CV1636 is a prehistoric site buried in Holocene alluvium …


Gordon Randolph Willey (March 17, 1913 - April 28, 2002), Michael E. Moseley Jan 2007

Gordon Randolph Willey (March 17, 1913 - April 28, 2002), Michael E. Moseley

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Editor's Preface Andean Past 8, Monica Barnes Jan 2007

Editor's Preface Andean Past 8, Monica Barnes

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Edwin Nelson Ferdon, Jr. (June 14, 1913 - November 13, 2002), Earl H. Lubensky Jan 2007

Edwin Nelson Ferdon, Jr. (June 14, 1913 - November 13, 2002), Earl H. Lubensky

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


John Howland Rowe (June 10, 1918 - May 1, 2004), Richard L. Burger Jan 2007

John Howland Rowe (June 10, 1918 - May 1, 2004), Richard L. Burger

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Richard Paul Schaedel (1920-2005), Tom D. Dillehay Jan 2007

Richard Paul Schaedel (1920-2005), Tom D. Dillehay

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Edward Craig Morris (October 7, 1939 - June 14, 2006), Thomas F. Lynch, Monica Barnes Jan 2007

Edward Craig Morris (October 7, 1939 - June 14, 2006), Thomas F. Lynch, Monica Barnes

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Donna Mcclelland (October 24, 1932-September 11, 2004), Christopher B. Donnan Jan 2007

Donna Mcclelland (October 24, 1932-September 11, 2004), Christopher B. Donnan

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Ed Franquemont (February 17, 1945 - March 11, 2003), Ann Peters Jan 2007

Ed Franquemont (February 17, 1945 - March 11, 2003), Ann Peters

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Evidence For Conjuring In Precolumbian Peru, William E. Sponner, Gordon F. Mcewan Jan 2007

Evidence For Conjuring In Precolumbian Peru, William E. Sponner, Gordon F. Mcewan

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Tello's "Lost Years" 1931-1935, Richard E. Daggett Jan 2007

Tello's "Lost Years" 1931-1935, Richard E. Daggett

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Prehispanic Use Of Domestic Space At La Huerta De Huacalera, Jorge Roberto Palma Jan 2007

Prehispanic Use Of Domestic Space At La Huerta De Huacalera, Jorge Roberto Palma

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Bringing Ethnography Home: Knut Hjalmar Stolpe's Works In Peru (1884), Ellen F. Steinberg, Jack H. Prost Jan 2007

Bringing Ethnography Home: Knut Hjalmar Stolpe's Works In Peru (1884), Ellen F. Steinberg, Jack H. Prost

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


The Village Of Beringa At The Periphery Of The Wari Empire: A Site Overview And New Radiocarbon Dates, Tiffiny A. Tung Jan 2007

The Village Of Beringa At The Periphery Of The Wari Empire: A Site Overview And New Radiocarbon Dates, Tiffiny A. Tung

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Archaeological Recovery At Quebrada De La Vaca, Chala, Peru, Francis A. Riddell Jan 2007

Archaeological Recovery At Quebrada De La Vaca, Chala, Peru, Francis A. Riddell

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Animal Resources And Recuay Cultural Transformations At Chichawas (Ancash, Peru, George F. Lau Jan 2007

Animal Resources And Recuay Cultural Transformations At Chichawas (Ancash, Peru, George F. Lau

Andean Past

No abstract provided.


Rural Wari Far From The Heartland: Huamanga Ceramics From Beringa, Majes Valley, Peru, Bruce Owen Jan 2007

Rural Wari Far From The Heartland: Huamanga Ceramics From Beringa, Majes Valley, Peru, Bruce Owen

Andean Past

No abstract provided.