Amerindian socio-cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica toward an anthropological understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area / Ernst Halbmayer.
| Other author | Halbmayer, Ernst, 1966- |
| Other author | Routledge (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First Edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2020. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Toward an anthropological understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area |
| Series | Routledge studies in anthropology Routledge studies in anthropology. ^A529522 |
| Contents | The Isthmo-Colombian Area in context -- Introduction: Toward an anthropological understanding of the area between the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Amazon / Ernst Halbmayer -- Conceptualizing the Isthmo-Colombian Area from a regional comparative perspective -- An Amerindian humanism: Order and transformation in Chibchan universes / Juan Camillo Ni©ło Vargas -- Languages of the Isthmo-Colombian Area and its Southeastern Borderland: Chibchan, Chocoan, Yukpa, and Wayuunaiki / Matthias Pache, Colette Grinevald and Sergio Meira -- Kinship, clanship, and hierarchy in the Isthmo-Colombian Area / Ernst Halbmayer -- Between Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, and Amazonia: Area conceptions, chronologies, and history / Ernst Halbmayer and Christiane Clados -- The golden ones: The human body as reflective metallic surface in the Isthmo-Colombian Area / Christiane Clados. Case studies: Change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants and animals -- Parents who own lives: Relations and persons among a Chibchan group in Colombia / Jose Arenas G©đmez -- Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": Specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the Sokorpa Yukpa of the Serran©Ưa del Perij©Ł, Colombia / Anne Goletz -- The Wounaan haaih©Ư j©±eu nam ritual with the K'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity / Chind©Ưo Pe©ła Ismare, Julia Vel©Łsquez Runk, Rito Ismare Pe©ła and Chenier Carpio Opua -- Things, life, and humans in Gunayala (Panama): Talking about Molas and Nuchus inside and outside Guna Society / M©ønica Mart©Ưnez Mauri -- Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica / Schabnam Kaviany -- The place of livestock in human-nonhuman relationship among the Wayuu / Alessandro Mancuso -- Murderous spirits: Shamanic Interpretation of Armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Ember©Ł (Choc©đ, Antioquia, Colombia) / Anne-Marie Losonczy. |
| Abstract | "This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo-Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region's indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo-Colombian Area"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019044146 |
| ISBN | 9780367808099 (Hardback) |
| ISBN | (eBook) |
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