Main entry:

Heckenberger, Michael.

Title & Author:

The ecology of power : culture, place, and personhood in the southern Amazon, A.D. 1000-2000 / Michael J. Heckenberger.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Description:

xxv, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Critical perspectives in identity, memory, and the built environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-384) and index.
Introduction -- Visualizing deep temporality -- Culture and history : the longue duree -- Traces of ancient times -- Social dynamics before Europe -- In the shadow of empire : colonialism and ethnogenesis -- Body, memory, and history -- Landscape and livelihood : the ethos of settled village life -- In the midst of others : landscapes of memory -- Houses, heroes, and history : the fractal person -- The symbolic economy of power : plazas as persons -- Conclusion : the pedigree of a contradiction -- Orthography and glossary of indigenous terms.

Summary:

This text examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography and archaeology.

Resources:
2005.
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415945984 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415945981 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415945992 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780415945998 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Indians of South America Brazil Xingu River Valley History.
Indians of South America First contact with other peoples Brazil Xingu River Valley.
Indians of South America Brazil Xingu River Valley Social life and customs.
Chiefdoms Brazil Xingu River Valley.
Indigenous peoples Brazil Xingu River Valley History.
Indigenous peoples First contact with other peoples.
Indigenous peoples Brazil Xingu River Valley Social life and customs.
Peuples autochtones Brésil Xingu, Vallée du Histoire.
Peuples autochtones Premiers contacts avec d'autres peuples Brésil Xingu, Vallée du.
Peuples autochtones Brésil Xingu, Vallée du Mœurs et coutumes.
Chefferie (Anthropologie) Brésil Xingu, Vallée du.
Peuples autochtones Premiers contacts avec d'autres peuples.
15.38 archaeology of the non-Western world.
Archaeology.
Ecology.
American Indians.
Índios (vida cotidiana) América do sul;xingu, rio.
Índios (história) América do sul;xingu, rio.
Cultura indígena América do sul;xingu, rio.
Xingu River Valley (Brazil) History.
Xingu River Valley (Brazil) Colonization.
Xingu River Valley (Brazil) Social life and customs.
Xingu, Vallée du (Brésil) Histoire.
Xingu, Vallée du (Brésil) Colonisation.
Xingu, Vallée du (Brésil) Mœurs et coutumes.
Brazil.
Xingu-Indianer.

Added entries:

Critical perspectives in identity, memory, and the built environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298137
Call No.: BIB 244409
Status: Available