Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in AmazoniaJonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas. Comparative Arawakan Histories, in paperback for the first time, examines social structures, political hierarchies, rituals, religious movements, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora. |
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Contents
LANGUAGES CULTURES | 19 |
From the Campa Cluster | 20 |
Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving | 74 |
Hierarchy Regionality | 99 |
Social Dissimilation and Assimilation | 147 |
On How the Paikwené Palikur | 171 |
A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion | 199 |
Multiethnic | 248 |
Prophetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan | 269 |
| 295 | |
Contributors | 327 |
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| Title | Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia Book collections on Project MUSE |
| Editors | Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0252027582, 9780252027581 |
| Length | 340 pages |
| Subjects | › › Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous History / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas History / Latin America / South America Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / General |
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