The Ecology of Power

Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000–2000

Libro de Michael J. Heckenberger (2005)

Contenido:

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

Broken Mirrors: Amazonia as Imagined World
Lost Civilizations, Again?
History, Ecology, and Power

PART I Visualizing Deep Temporality

CHAPTER 2 Culture and History: The Longue Durée

The Southern Amazon
The Southern Periphery
Xinguano Cultural Schema

CHAPTER 3 Traces of Ancient Times

Basic Chronology
A Tale of Two Towns: The Western Complex
The Eastern Complex

CHAPTER 4 Social Dynamics Before Europe

A Thread of Ariadne
Ancient Xinguano Regime as Galactic Polity
War and Peace in the Age of Inka

CHAPTER 5 In The Shadow of Empire: Colonialism and Ethnogenesis

A Brief History of “Contact”
The Construction of Xinguano Pluralism
Demography and Social Change

PART II Body, Memory, and History

CHAPTER 6 Landscape and Livelihood: The Ethos of Settled Village Life

Making a Living
Basic Diet
Objects as Subjects
Pottery
Productivity

CHAPTER 7 In The Midst of Others: Landscapes of Memory

The Mirror World of Dawn Time
The Skin of the Land
Village and Countryside
Place and Place-Making: The Sites of Memory
Visualizing Landscape: Memory and Representation

CHAPTER 8 Houses, Heroes, and History: The Fractal Person

Xinguano Social Memory: Enchainments
Chiefs and Others
Village as “House”