Indigenous history and the history of the "Indians" / Carlos Fausto and Michael Heckenberger -- Appropriating transformations -- Time is disease, suffering, and oblivion : Yanesha historicity and the struggle against temporality / Fernando Santos-Granero -- If God were a jaguar : cannibalism and Christianity among the Guarani (16th-20th centuries) / Carlos Fausto -- Animal masters and the ecological embedding of history among the Ávila Runa of Ecuador / Eduardo O. Kohn -- Sick of history : contrasting regimes of historicity in the Upper Amazon / Anne-Christine Taylor -- Cultural change as body metamorphosis / Aparecida Vilaça -- "Ex-Cocama": transforming identities in Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow -- Faces of the past : just how "ancestral" are Matis "ancestor spirit" masks? / Philippe Erikson -- Bones, flutes, and the dead : memory and funerary treatments in Amazonia / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil -- Xinguano heroes, ancestors, and others : materializing the past in chiefly bodies, ritual space, and landscape / Michael Heckenberger
Summary
These groundbreaking essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple argument--that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic. Change and transformation define the indigenous history of the Amazon from before European conquest to the present