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Author Green, Lesley, 1967-

Title Knowing the day, knowing the world : engaging Amerindian thought in public archaeology / Lesley Green ; recording and translations by David Green
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments and a note on authorship -- Introduction : "The things left in the ground" : introducing archaeology to Arukwa -- "Are you here?" : personhood, presence, knowledges, and knowing -- "So many stories on this day-world" : history as the retracing of tracks -- Journeys with the rain stars : making sense of the moving cosmos -- The curvature of surfaces : Cartesian space, the topology of Palikur grammar, and consubjective space -- "Reading the tracks of the ancestors" : resources for assembling times past -- The story trails of Kwap : archaeology, provenance and an ecology of predation -- Epilogue : Beyond matter set in space and time : engaging Amerindian thought in public archaeology
Summary Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapá, Brazil, this book demonstrates both the challenges of comprehending alternative cosmologies and the rich rewards of grappling with Amerindian ways of thinking and knowing. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-301) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 30, 2013)
Subject Palicur Indians -- Social life and customs
Palicur Indians -- Antiquities
Indian philosophy -- Brazil -- Amapá (State)
Indian cosmology.
Archaeology and state -- Brazil -- Amapá (State)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Manners and customs
Indian philosophy
Indian cosmology
Archaeology and state
Antiquities
SUBJECT Amapá (Brazil : State) -- Social life and customs
Amapá (Brazil : State) -- Antiquities
Subject Brazil -- Amapá (State)
Form Electronic book
Author Green, David R., 1964-
ISBN 9780816599059
081659905X