Victims and warriors : violence, history, and memory in Amazonia / Casey High.

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High, Casey, 1977- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Interpretations of culture in the new millenniumPublisher: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780252097027
0252097025

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victims and warriorsDDC classification:

305.8009866 23

LOC classification:

F3722.1.H83

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Contents:

Civilized victims -- Becoming warriors -- Like the ancient ones -- Lost people and distant kin -- Intimate others -- Shamans and enemies -- Victims and warriors -- Afterword.

Summary: Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows how these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.

Civilized victims -- Becoming warriors -- Like the ancient ones -- Lost people and distant kin -- Intimate others -- Shamans and enemies -- Victims and warriors -- Afterword.

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Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of the Waorani's social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows how these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.

English.

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