Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I. First Transformations
2. The Ancient Amerindian Polities of the Amazon, the Orinoco, and the Atlantic Coast: A Preliminary Analysis of Their Passage from Antiquity to Extinction - Neil Lancelot Whitehead
3. The Impact of Conquest on Contemporary Indigenous Peoples of the Guiana Shield: The System of Orinoco Regional Interdependence
- Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez and Horacio Biord
4. Social Organization and Political Power in the Amazon Floodplain: The Ethnohistorical Sources - Antonio Porro
5. The Evidence for the Nature of the Process of Indigenous Deculturation and Destabilization in the Brazilian Amazon in the Last Three Hundred Years: Preliminary Data - Adelia Engrdcia de Oliveira
Part II. Habitat And Human Biology In Perspective
6. Health and Demography of Native Amazonians: Historical
Perspective and Current Status -
Warren M. Hern
7. Diet and Nutritional Status of Amazonian Peoples
- Darna L. Dufour
8. Hunting and Fishing in Amazonia: Hold the Answers, What Are the Questions? - Stephen Beckerman
Part III. Society, Ecology, And Cosmology In Context
9. Homeostasis as a Cultural System: The Jivaro Case - Philippe Descola
10. Farming, Feuding, and Female Status: The Achuar Case - Pita Kelekna
11. Subsistence Strategy, Social Organization, and Warfare in Central Brazil in the Context of European Penetration - Nancy M. Flowers
12. Environmental and Social Implications of Pre- and Postcontact Situations on Brazilian Indians: The Kayapo and a New Amazonian Synthesis - Darrell Addison Posey
13. Beyond Resistance: Comparative Study of Utopian Renewal in Amazonia - Michael F. Brown
Part IV. Strategies For Integrative Research
14. The Eastern Bororo from an Archaeological Perspective - Irmhild Wust
15. Genetic Relatedness and Language Distributions in Amazonia - Harriet E. Manelis Klein
16. Language, Culture, and Environment: Tupi-Guarani Plant Names Over Time -
William Balee and Denny Moore
Part V. Adaptation Today
17. Becoming Indians: The Politics of Tukanoan Ethnicity - Jean E. Jackson
Index