Title: Artifacts and society in Amazonia =
Authors: Myers, Thomas P.; Cipolletti, Maria Susana.; International Congress of Americanists
Date: 2002
Publisher: Verlag Anton Saurwein,
Physical description: 190 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC class: G
Contents: The many ramifications of material culture in Amazonia / Thomas P. Myers and María Susana Cipolletti -- The exchange of women and the value of baskets : a study of the Yanomamï of southern Venezuela / Gabriele Herzog-Schröder -- The mask designs of the Ticuna Curt Nimuendaju Collection / Priscila Faulhaber -- Un objeto ritual : el chine o escudo de baile de los Ticuna / Jean-Pierre Goulard -- The Miraña deer skull : mythological and cognitive implications of a Miraña communication instrument (Colombian Amazon) / Dimitri Karadimas -- Kenan, the ritual stool : a reduced model of the Cashinahua person during the Nixpupima rite of passage / Els Lagrou -- Armados hasta los dientes : los trofeos de dientes humanos en la Amazonia / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil -- Looking inward : the florescence of Conibo/Shipibo art during the rubber boom / Thomas P. Myers -- Objetos del mundo superior y del inframundo y la legitimación del poder shamánico Secoya (Ecuador y Perú) / María Susana Cipolletti -- Artefactos, género e integración comunitaria entre los Quichuas-Canelos de la Amazonia ecuatoriana / Julián López García -- La cerámica de las mujeres canelo (Ecuador) : canto y objeto / Luz María Lepe Lira.
Notes: Proceedings of a symposium held at the 50th International Congress of Americanists held in Warsaw July 10-14, 2000.