Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory

Alf Hornborg, Jonathan D. Hill

ISBN 10: 1607320940 / ISBN 13: 9781607320944

Editore: University Press of Colorado, 2011

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Casa editrice: University Press of Colorado

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: Hard cover

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A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.

Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--the notion of essentialist ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Amazonia. The evidence, however, suggests a much more fluid relationship among geography, language use, ethnic identity, and genetics. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia, leading linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists interpret their research from a unique nonessentialist perspective to form a more accurate picture of the ethnolinguistic diversity in this area.

Revealing how ethnic identity construction is constantly in flux, contributors show how such processes can be traced through different ethnic markers such as pottery styles and languages. Scholars and students studying lowland South America will be especially interested, as will anthropologists intrigued by its cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach.

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Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia will be appreciated by those with an interest in understand the diversity of the Amazonian past and historical situational views of ethnicity. The editors did a good job of putting together these fascinating chapters --Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, American Anthropologist