Comparative Arawakan Histories

Jonathan D. Hill is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society.Fernando Santos-Granero is a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the author of The Power of Love: The Moral Use of Knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru.

"A tour de force of scholarship by individuals at the very cutting edge of their discipline." Norman Whitten, the professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign