Lowland South American World

Casey High is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His research with Waorani communities in Ecuador over the past 25 years has focused on memory, language, collaborative anthropology, and Amazonian environmental activism in response to oil development.Luiz Costa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a member of the Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology at the National Museum. He has carried out research with the Kanamari of southwestern Amazonia since 2002.

"South America, particularly its lowlands, was once considered the least known continent. Fifty years of research have changed that entirely. This is more than evident in this compendium, which not only summarises the current state of the art, especially in Amazonian ethnology, but also includes innovative chapters on the cutting edge of the discipline, some of them written by indigenous authors. A true achievement."Aparecida Vilaça, Professor of Social Anthropology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro"From Guyana to Chile, from Ecuador to Argentina, this groundbreaking volume foregrounds Indigenous voices and Indigenous scholarship in situating the Lowland South American world today. Each one of the forty essays contained within offers a unique perspective, and collectively they address a wide variety of essential themes, from religion to politics, from economy to environment. The volume promises to be required and provocative reading for both students and scholars of the region for many years to come."Magnus Course, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University of Edinburgh

• Re-imagining Lowland South America: An Introduction Part 1: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Histories 1. The Enigma of Ashaninka Endowarfare: Cultural Dictate or Historical Product? 2. Labor, Resistance, and Politics: Indigenous Agency in the Bolivian Rubber Boom 3. Christianity and Christians in Amazonia 4. Guianese Maroons in an Amazonian Ethnological Landscape Part 2: Myth, Memory and Storytelling 5. The Origin Myth of a Myth: The ‘Land without Evil’ Revisited 6. A Matrix of Knowledge: Indigenous Histories and Indigenous Anthropology in Brazil 7. The Work of Desire: Alterity and Exogamy in a Kotiria Origin Myth from the Northwest Amazon 8. Storytelling, Textuality and Experience in Lowland South America 9. Eras and Events: Contrasting Amazonian Narratives of the Past Part 3: The Substance of Life: Making Real People 10. Birth in Amazonia: Transforming Responsibility in the Care Encounter 11. Detachable Persons, Porous Bodies, and the Art of Love in the Argentinian Chaco 12. The Imports of Uncertainty in the Tragedy of a Man of Substance 13. A World More Bearable in Which to Live: Three Ethnographic Examples from Lowland South America 14. The ways of food and feathers: Revisiting the Bororo Literature Part 4: Land, Territory and Mobility 15. Darawate: Native Amazonian Trail Signals and other Ephemeral Plant Scripts 16. Regenerating Life: Indigenous Landscapes on the Atlantic Coast of Northeast Brazil 17 Language and Territory in Mapuche Ritual Practices in Chile (Zugun ka mapu mapuche gijañmawün mew Gülu püle) 18. Paths and Networks Beyond the Human in Amazonian Social Worlds 19. Amazonian Environmental Activism at COP26: A Conversation with Uboye Gaba Part 5: Ownership, Mastery and Exchange 20. Child, Pet, and Prey: Relations of Dependence in Amazonia 21. Mastery Without Servitude: On Freedom and Dependence in Amazonia 22. A Politics of Regard: Action and Influence in Lowland South America 23. Pets and Domesticated Animals in Lowland South America Part 6: Gender, the Body, and the Senses 24. Darséa Bhasera Numia: Tukana Women, Kumua Women, and their Transformation 25. Neither Witches nor Charlatans: Subverting Stereotypes of Shipibo-Konibo Women Shamans in Western Amazonia 26. Sick of School: Childhood, Gender, and Intergenerational Change in Guyana Part 7: Imagery, Materiality and the Visual 27. Indigenous Media in the context of Cultural Outreach: Reflections on A’uwẽ (Xavante) innovation within longstanding tradition 28. The Metaphysics of An Amazonian Tubology 29. “Assembling” the Xingu Indigenous Territory: A Kawaiwete Shaman and His Collection of Material Culture 30. Collecting Amazonia: Beyond Material Culture and Ethnological Museums Part 8: Language, Music, and Ritual Communication 31. Voices of the Spirits: Ritual Discourse, Musicality, and Communicative Ideologies in Amazonia 32. Geomythology of Musicological Rites: A Journey with Wild Dialogue 33. Indigenous Language Revival as a Practice of Resistance: The Case of Patxohã Language and Pataxó People in Northeast Brazil 34. Kuambü: The Poetics and Politics of a Xingu Ritual in Brazil Part 9: Indigenous Politics and Leadership 35. Voting in Lowland South America: Changing Relations Between Indigenous People and Nation-States 36. Beauty and Strength: Mẽbêngôkre-Kayapó Women’s Leadership and Governance in Brazil 37. Cultural Duality in Amazonian Ecuador: The Canelos Quichua Part 10: Education, Inequality and the State 38. The Sociocultural Dimensions of Education among River-Dwellers and Other Lowland Communities in Brazil 39. Water, Water Everywhere: Health and Sanitation in Indigenous Communities of the Amazon 40. Indigenous Agency, Isolation and Access to Justice