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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Aikhenvald alliances Amapa Amaru Amazonia Amerindian ancestors Anthropology Apurina Arawakan groups Arawakan languages archaeological Aukwa Baniwa Baré basin Brazil Campa Caribbean century ceramic Chamicuro chants chapter chiefs clans classification colonial communities confederacies Conibo culture area Curripaco defined diaspora eastern Peru endo-warfare ethnic ethnographic ethos European first fricative consonant glottochronology Grenand Guainia hierarchy historical linguistics Ifiapari indigenous Amazonian influence initiation interethnic Isana Karina Karipuna Kuwai Kuwé language family Lokono Lower Urubamba Lowland South America Matsiguenga migrations Mojos multiethnic myth mythic neighbors networks northwest Amazon northwestern Amazonia organization Orinoco Orinoco River Pa’ikwené Palikur Pano Panoan phratries Piapoco Piro political pre-Andine Arawak processes reconstruction reflect region relations relationships Renard-Casevitz Rio Negro ritual River riverine sacred Santos-Granero shamans significance social societies sociopolitical South America Spanish speakers specific Taino Tariana territory tion trade traditions Tukano Tukanoan Upper Rio Negro Vaupés Vaupés River Vidal villages Wakuénai Warekena Whitehead Yanesha Zucchi