Comparative Arawakan Histories

Jonathan D. Hill is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and 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.

"This volume is a true treasure-house for all those interested in South American indigenous ethnology for being highly informative, rich in details, and really interdisciplinary. Another very positive aspect is that the single contributions are interrelated and refer one to the other, producing a high level of coherence rarely achieved by volumes of this kind."--Peter Schröder, Anthropos Institute

• Introduction JONATHAN D. HILL AND FERNANDO SANTOS-GRANERO 1 PART 1: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES 1. The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America FERNANDO SANTOS-GRANERO 25 2. Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization NEIL L. WHITEHEAD 51 3. Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving the Knowledge of Arawak SIDNEY DA SILVA FACUNDES 74 PART 2: HIERARCHY, DIASPORA, AND NEW IDENTITIES 4. Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative MICHAEL J. HECKENBERGER 99 5. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace- Builders of the Bolivian Savanna FRANCE-MARIE RENARD-CASEVITZ 123 6. Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia PETER GOW 147 7. Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa'ikwene (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Center and on the Edge at the Same Time ALAN PASSES 171 PART 3: POWER, CULTISM, AND SACRED LANDSCAPES 8. A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion ALBERTA ZUCCHI 199 9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region JONATHAN D. HILL 223 10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia SILVIA M. VIDAL 248 11. Prophetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon ROBIN M. WRIGHT 269