Artifacts and society in Amazonia
Subtitle: Artefactos y sociedad en Amazonia
By: Thomas P. Myers & María Susana Cipolletti (eds.).
Contributors: International Congress of Americanists (50th : 2000 : Warsaw, Poland)
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: BAS -- v. 36; Bonner amerikanistische Studien -- 36
Publisher: Verlag Anton Saurwein
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Markt Schwaben, Germany
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9783931419639
Subjects: Indians of South America; Material culture; Congresses; Rites and ceremonies
Other titles: Artefactos y sociedad en Amazonia
Notes: Proceedings of a symposium held at the 50th International Congress of Americanists held in Warsaw July 10-14, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: The many ramifications of material culture in Amazonia  -- Thomas P. Myers and María Susana Cipolletti; title: The exchange of women and the value of baskets : a study of the Yanomamï of southern Venezuela  -- Gabriele Herzog-Schröder; title: The mask designs of the Ticuna Curt Nimuendaju Collection  -- Priscila Faulhaber; title: Un objeto ritual : el chine o escudo de baile de los Ticuna  -- Jean-Pierre Goulard; title: The Miraña deer skull : mythological and cognitive implications of a Miraña communication instrument (Colombian Amazon)  -- Dimitri Karadimas; title: Kenan, the ritual stool : a reduced model of the Cashinahua person during the Nixpupima rite of passage  -- Els Lagrou; title: Armados hasta los dientes : los trofeos de dientes humanos en la Amazonia  -- Jean-Pierre Chaumeil; title: Looking inward : the florescence of Conibo/Shipibo art during the rubber boom  -- Thomas P. Myers; title: Objetos del mundo superior y del inframundo y la legitimación del poder shamánico Secoya (Ecuador y Perú)  -- María Susana Cipolletti; title: Artefactos, género e integración comunitaria entre los Quichuas-Canelos de la Amazonia ecuatoriana  -- Julián López García; title: La cerámica de las mujeres canelo (Ecuador) : canto y objeto -- Luz María Lepe Lira.