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Full-Text Articles in Anthropology
Negotiating New Roles And Relationships In The Jungle: Rain Forest Imaginations And Community-Based Ecotourism In Ecuador, Anna Meiser, Eveline Dürr
Negotiating New Roles And Relationships In The Jungle: Rain Forest Imaginations And Community-Based Ecotourism In Ecuador, Anna Meiser, Eveline Dürr
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
From “Acculturated Indians” To “Dynamic Amazonian Quichua-Speaking Peoples, Michael Uzendoski, Norman E. Whitten Jr.
From “Acculturated Indians” To “Dynamic Amazonian Quichua-Speaking Peoples, Michael Uzendoski, Norman E. Whitten Jr.
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
“Doing It Like Real Runa Women And Men” A Runa Ceremonial Festival, Francesca Mezzenzana
“Doing It Like Real Runa Women And Men” A Runa Ceremonial Festival, Francesca Mezzenzana
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Amazonian Quichua In The Western Amazon Regional Interaction Sphere, Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
Amazonian Quichua In The Western Amazon Regional Interaction Sphere, Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Analogic Alterity: The Dialogics Of Life Of Amazonian Kichwa Mythology In Comparison With Tupi Guaraní (Mbyá) Creation Stories, Michael Uzendoski
Analogic Alterity: The Dialogics Of Life Of Amazonian Kichwa Mythology In Comparison With Tupi Guaraní (Mbyá) Creation Stories, Michael Uzendoski
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Earthy Concreteness And Anti-Hypotheticalism In Amazonian Quichua Discourse, Janis B. Nuckolls, Tod D. Swanson
Earthy Concreteness And Anti-Hypotheticalism In Amazonian Quichua Discourse, Janis B. Nuckolls, Tod D. Swanson
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
The Life Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology Of Maya Metates ‐ By Searcy, Michael T [Review Of The Book The Life-Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology Of Maya Metates, By M. T. Searcy], Jennifer P. Mathews
The Life Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology Of Maya Metates ‐ By Searcy, Michael T [Review Of The Book The Life-Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology Of Maya Metates, By M. T. Searcy], Jennifer P. Mathews
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research
This volume attempts to get at the interpretations of the archaeological record from the back-end by studying the modern Maya metate life cycle, including procurement, production, acquisition, use and discard. The author spent two years in Guatemala conducting ethnographic research with metate producers and users in three Maya communities. It is through this rich research that he greatly expands our understanding of metates by providing background of their complexity through several avenues. For example, he documents contemporary gifting traditions, noting that families still give metates as wedding gifts to couples, even as their use decreases with the presence of electric …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stigmatized Workers & Identity Formation: Spiritual Healers Of Botánicas In San Antonio, Erin Drake
Stigmatized Workers & Identity Formation: Spiritual Healers Of Botánicas In San Antonio, Erin Drake
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
No abstract provided.
Houses In A Landscape: Memory And Everyday Life Mesoamerica ‐ By Hendon, Julia A. [Review Of The Book Houses In A Landscape: Memory And Everyday Life In Mesoamerica, By J. A. Hendon], Jennifer P. Mathews
Houses In A Landscape: Memory And Everyday Life Mesoamerica ‐ By Hendon, Julia A. [Review Of The Book Houses In A Landscape: Memory And Everyday Life In Mesoamerica, By J. A. Hendon], Jennifer P. Mathews
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research
A review of the book Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica in which the author uses the material remains found in and around ancient Maya domestic spaces in three settlements in Honduras, Hendon to examine aspects of everyday life.
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Cenotes As Conceptual Boundary Markers At The Ancient Maya Site Of T’Isil, Quintana Roo, México, Scott L. Fedick, Jennifer P. Mathews, K. Sorensen
Cenotes As Conceptual Boundary Markers At The Ancient Maya Site Of T’Isil, Quintana Roo, México, Scott L. Fedick, Jennifer P. Mathews, K. Sorensen
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research
Ancient Maya communities, from small village sites to urban centers, have long posed problems to archaeologists in attempting to define the boundaries or limits of settlement. These ancient communities tend to be relatively dispersed, with settlement densities dropping toward the periphery, but lacking any clear boundary. At a limited number of sites, the Maya constructed walled enclosures or earthworks, which scholars have generally interpreted as defensive projects, often hastily built to protect the central districts of larger administrative centers during times of warfare (e.g., Demarest et al. 1997; Inomata 1997; Kurjack and Andrews 1976; Puleston and Callender 1967; Webster 2000; …
El Proyecto Costa Escondida: Arqueología Y Compromiso Comunitario A Lo Largo De La Costa Norte De Quintana Roo, México / The Costa Escondida Project: Archaeology And Community Engagement Along Quintana Roo's North Coast, Mexico, Jeffrey B. Glover, Dominique Rissolo, Jennifer P. Mathews, C. A. Furman
El Proyecto Costa Escondida: Arqueología Y Compromiso Comunitario A Lo Largo De La Costa Norte De Quintana Roo, México / The Costa Escondida Project: Archaeology And Community Engagement Along Quintana Roo's North Coast, Mexico, Jeffrey B. Glover, Dominique Rissolo, Jennifer P. Mathews, C. A. Furman
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research
El Proyecto Costa Escondida iniciado en 2006 se diseñó para investigar las culturas marítimas previas y posteriores al contacto español, así como para estudiar el paisaje del norte de Quintana Roo, Península de Yucatán, México. Este proyecto no promueve una agenda de desarrollo “tradicional”, sino que se inserta en la crítica del desarrollo para ampliar los límites del compromiso comunitario a través del aprendizaje social. Al encontrarse lejos de los principales sitios turísticos de la costa del Caribe, el área cuenta con una industria de turismo en expansión asociada a la Isla Holbox. En este artículo se discuten las experiencias …
Amazonia And The Origin Of The State: An Interview With Robert L. Carneiro (1927- ), Janet Chernela
Amazonia And The Origin Of The State: An Interview With Robert L. Carneiro (1927- ), Janet Chernela
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
From Honey To Ashes, Louis C. Forline
From Honey To Ashes, Louis C. Forline
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Film review of From Honey to Ashes. Lucas Bessire. Documentary Educational Resources. Watertown, MA. 2006.