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Amazonian anthropology
Apis Mellifera Mellifera
Author_Elizabeth Ewart
Brazilian Government
Brazilian NGO
Buriti Palm
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central Brazil
Circular Village
cultural resilience studies
Dual Organization
Earth Oven
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ethnographic fieldwork methods
ethnography
indigenous Amazonian societies
indigenous identity formation
Intersubjective Availability
kinship systems analysis
Men's House
Men’s House
Moiety Membership
moiety social structure
Moiety System
Natal Clan
NGO Representative
PanarA! social organisation transformations
Patrilateral Parallel Cousins
Residential Circle
Social Organization
society
Temporal Playing Field
Tupian Peoples
Village Circle
Village Plaza
Von Den Steinen
Wife's Clan
Wife’s Clan
Witchcraft Accusations
Young Elder
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781472535429
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Hailed once as ‘giants of the Amazon’, Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and Society in Central Brazil is a unique ethnographic account, in which analytical approaches to social organisation are brought into dialogue with Panará social categories and values as told in their own terms. Exploring concepts such as space, material goods, and ideas about enemies, this book examines how social categories transform in time and reveals the ways in which Panará people themselves produce their identities in constant dialogue with the forms of alterity that surround them. Clearly and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students, scholars and anyone interested in the complex lives and histories of indigenous Amazonian societies.
Elizabeth Ewart is university lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.
