Trekking through history : the Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador / Laura M. Rival.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place i.

THE HISTORICAL ECOLOGY SERIES; [Contents]; Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Trekking Through History; CHAPTER ONE: Trekking in Amazonia; Cross-Cultural Generalizations About Amazonian Societies; Amazon Trekkers; CHAPTER TWO: The Upper Amazon from Omagua Expansion to Zaparo Collapse; Historiography and Isolationist People; The Presence of Tupian People in the Upper Amazon; The Napo-Curaray Geopolitical Landscape at the Time of Correrías; The Fate of Zaparoan Peoples During the Rubber Era; Recorded Huaorani History.

Historical Isolation, Adaptation, and ContinuityCHAPTER THREE: The Time and Space of Huaorani Nomadic Isolationism; Knowing, Remembering, and Representing the Past; Primeval Predation and Survival; Anger and Homicide; Warfare, History, and Kinship; From the Victim's Point of View; CHAPTER FOUR: Harvesting the Forest's Natural Abundance; An Economy of Procurement; Chonta Palm Groves, Fructification, and Forest Bounty; The Giving Environment; CHAPTER FIVE: Coming Back to the Longhouse; The Longhouse: To Belong and to Reside; The Sharing Economy; Affinal Pairing and Maternal Multiplicity.

The Dialectics of Incorporation and SeparationA Gap in the Canopy; CHAPTER SIX: Eëmë Festivals: Ceremonial Increase and Marriage Alliance; Ahuene: The Tree Couple; The Human Birds; Birds and Wild Boars; Tying the Knot; Ceremonial Drinking, "Wild" Marriages, and Social Distance; The Asymmetry Between Hosts and Guests; Alliance and Residence: A Comparative Perspective; Photos; CHAPTER SEVEN: Schools in the Rain Forest; Schooling, Identity, and Cultural Politics; Legacy of the Summer Institute of Linguistics; We Want Schools to Become Civilized; Civilized Bodies in the Making.

Schools as Public Centers of WealthTrekking Away from School Villages; The Naturalization of Impersonal Donors; CHAPTER EIGHT: Prey at the Center; Notes; References; Index.

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