1st Edition
Space and Society in Central Brazil A Panará Ethnography
By Elizabeth Ewart
Copyright 2013
304 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hailed once as ‘giants of the Amazon’, Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and... Read more
IntroductionPart One: Villages and ObjectsThe View from the HouseThe View from the CentreSoti - the Value of ThingsPart Two: Others and SelvesHipe - Enemies and OthersHipe Within - Witches and WitchcraftThe Making of PeoplePeanutsConclusionBibliographyIndex
Biography
Elizabeth Ewart is university lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.
Elizabeth Ewart very effectively analyzes an Amazonian group that only came into regular contact with the outside world in the 1970s, engaging with classic literature on the subject of Amazonian (specifically Ge) social organization to discover how that organization works in the present and by extension how it has probably always worked. - Anthropology Review Database - Jack David Eller
