Rethinking history and myth
Subtitle: indigenous South American perspectives on the past
By: edited by Jonathan D. Hill.
Contributors: Hill, Jonathan David, 1954-; American Anthropological Association. Meeting.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Indian mythology -- South America -- Congresses; Indians of South America -- History -- Congresses
Notes: Bibliography: p. [307]-329.
Rev. versions of papers read in 1984 at a session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : myth and history / Jonathan D. Hill; title: Cauchu Uras : Lowland and Quichua histories of the Amazon rubber boom / Mary-Elizabeth Reeve; title: Righting history in the northwest Amazon : myth, structure, and history in an Arapaco narrative / Janet M. Chernela; title: The destroying Christ : an Aymara myth of conquest / Mary Dillon and Thomas Abercrombie; title: Time, narrative, and ritual : historical interpretations from an Amazonian society / Jonathan D. Hill and Robin M. Wright; title: The Josho Nahuanbo are all wet and undercooked : Shipibo views of the whiteman and the Incas in myth, legend, and history / Peter G. Roe; title: Images of resistance in colonial domination / Roger Rasnake; title: Cerebral savage : the whiteman as symbol of cleverness and savagery in Waura myth / Emilienne Ireland; title: Political memories and colonizing symbols : Santiago and the Peruvian mountain gods of colonial Peru / Irene Silverblatt; title: History, myth, and social consciousness among the Kayapó of central Brazil / Terence Turner; title: Indian voices : contact experienced and expressed / Alcida Ramos; title: Commentary : ethno-ethnohistory : myth and history in native South American representations of contact with Western society / Terence Turner; title: Commentary : historical and mythic evocations of Chthonian power in South America / Norman E. Whitten, Jr.