Re-imagining Lowland South America: An Introduction
Part1: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Histories
1. The Enigma of Ashaninka Endowarfare: Cultural Dictate or Historical Product?
2. Labor, Resistance, and Politics: Indigenous Agency in the Bolivian Rubber Boom
3. Christianity and Christians in Amazonia
4. Guianese Maroons in an Amazonian Ethnological Landscape Part 2: Myth, Memory and Storytelling
5. The Origin Myth of a Myth: The ‘Land without Evil’ Revisited
6. A Matrix of Knowledge: Indigenous Histories and Indigenous Anthropology in Brazil
7. The Work of Desire: Alterity and Exogamy in a Kotiria Origin Myth from the Northwest Amazon
8. Storytelling, Textuality and Experience in Lowland South America
9. Eras and Events: Contrasting Amazonian Narratives of the Past Part3: The Substance of Life: Making Real People
10. Birth in Amazonia: Transforming Responsibility in the Care Encounter
11. Detachable Persons, Porous Bodies, and the Art of Love in the Argentinian Chaco
12. The Imports of Uncertainty in the Tragedy of a Man of Substance
13. A World More Bearable in Which to Live: Three Ethnographic Examples from Lowland South America
14. The ways of food and feathers: Revisiting the Bororo Literature
Part4: Land, Territory and Mobility
15. Darawate: Native Amazonian Trail Signals and other Ephemeral Plant Scripts
16. Regenerating Life: Indigenous Landscapes on the Atlantic Coast of Northeast Brazil 17 Language and Territory in Mapuche Ritual Practices in Chile (Zugun ka mapu mapuche gijañmawün mew Gülu püle)
18. Paths and Networks Beyond the Human in Amazonian Social Worlds
19. Amazonian Environmental Activism at COP26: A Conversation with Uboye Gaba
Part5: Ownership, Mastery and Exchange
20. Child, Pet, and Prey: Relations of Dependence in Amazonia
21. Mastery Without Servitude: On Freedom and Dependence in Amazonia
22. A Politics of Regard: Action and Influence in Lowland South America
23. Pets and Domesticated Animals in Lowland South America
Part6: Gender, the Body, and the Senses
24. Darséa Bhasera Numia: Tukana Women, Kumua Women, and their Transformation
25. Neither Witches nor Charlatans: Subverting Stereotypes of Shipibo-Konibo Women Shamans in Western Amazonia
26. Sick of School: Childhood, Gender, and Intergenerational Change in Guyana
Part7: Imagery, Materiality and the Visual
27. Indigenous Media in the context of Cultural Outreach: Reflections on A’uwẽ (Xavante) innovation within longstanding tradition
28. The Metaphysics of An Amazonian Tubology
29. “Assembling” the Xingu Indigenous Territory: A Kawaiwete Shaman and His Collection of Material Culture
30. Collecting Amazonia: Beyond Material Culture and Ethnological Museums
Part8: Language, Music, and Ritual Communication
31. Voices of the Spirits: Ritual Discourse, Musicality, and Communicative Ideologies in Amazonia
32. Geomythology of Musicological Rites: A Journey with Wild Dialogue
33. Indigenous Language Revival as a Practice of Resistance: The Case of Patxohã Language and Pataxó People in Northeast Brazil
34. Kuambü: The Poetics and Politics of a Xingu Ritual in Brazil
Part9: Indigenous Politics and Leadership
35. Voting in Lowland South America: Changing Relations Between Indigenous People and Nation-States
36. Beauty and Strength: Mẽbêngôkre-Kayapó Women’s Leadership and Governance in Brazil
37. Cultural Duality in Amazonian Ecuador: The Canelos Quichua Part10: Education, Inequality and the State
38. The Sociocultural Dimensions of Education among River-Dwellers and Other Lowland Communities in Brazil
39. Water, Water Everywhere: Health and Sanitation in Indigenous Communities of the Amazon
40. Indigenous Agency, Isolation and Access to Justice