Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia

ISBN-13: 9780198273554 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 344 str.

Peter Gow

Opis

This book is an ethnography of the native people of the Bajo Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia. Gow attempts to account for the fact that the people of this region appear to be very acculturated when compared to better-known indigenous Amazonian peoples. He argues that when native people's claims are viewed from the perspective of their own values, and in the context of their creation of life through the productive transformation of the forest and the commodity economy, they can be seen to form a coherent part of kinship. Historical change is thus revealed as interior to the ongoing creation of kinship for native people, rather than alien to it.

Recenzje

`Explorant cette terra incognita entre la culture nationale et les cultures tribales indig^enees des pays andins, ce livre aborde donc des questions cruciales non seulement pour l'amazonisme contemporain, mais pour la discipline en g^en^eral ... L'une des principales qualit^es de ce livre, ^a l'^ecriture claire et discr^ete, est la subtili^e de ses notations ... Un livre qui suscite donc des questions importantes et retient constamment, par sa subtilit^e et son imagination, l'int^er^et du lecteur. l'Homme

Spis treści

Introduction; A geographical history of the Bajo Urubamba; The time and space of civilization; Bosses and workers: the system of Habilitacion; Husband and wife; Parents and children; Living and dying; The Communidad Nativa; Mixed people; Conclusion