Beyond the visible and the material
Subtitle: the amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière
By: edited by Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead
Contributors: Rivière, Peter; Rival, Laura M; Whitehead, Neil L
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Rivière, Peter; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region; Ethnology
Notes: A collection of 14 papers contributed by worldwide colleagues in honor of Rivière's work as he nears retirement from the Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-295) and index
Table of contents: title: Forty years of Amazonian anthropology: the contributions of Peter Rivière / Laura Rival and Neil Whitehead; title: GUT feelings about Amazonia: potential affinity and the construction of sociality / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro; title: Wives, pets, and affines: marriage among the Jivaro / Anne-Christine Taylor; title: Seed and clone: the symbolic and social significance of bitter manioc cultivation / Laura Rival; title: The Blowpipe Indians: variations on the theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon / Jean-Pierre Chameil; title: Myth and material culture: Matis blowguns, palm trees, and ancestor spirits / Philippe Erikson; title: From longhouse to village: structure and change in the Colombian Amazon / Kaj Århem; title: The composition of Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) households in central Brazil / Vanessa Lea; title: Piercing distinctions: making and remaking the social contract in the north-west Amazon / Janet Chernela; title: Inside and out: alterity and the ceremonial construction of the person in the Guianas / Paul Henley; title: Itoto (Kanaima) as death and anti-structure / Audrey Butt Colson; title: Kanaimà: shamanism and ritual death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana / Neil Whitehead; title: Finding one's body: relationships between cosmology and work in north-west Amazonia / Thomas Griffiths; title: The hierarchy bias and the equality bias: epistemological considerations on the analysis of gender / Claire Lorrain