Hornborg, Alf, editorHill, Jonathan D., editorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032011http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87670Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: ethnicity in ancient Amazonia / Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill -- Archaeological cultures and past identities in the pre-colonial central Amazon / Eduardo Góes Neves -- Deep history, cultural identities and ethnogenesis in the southern Amazon / Michael Heckenberger -- Deep time, big space: an archaeologist skirts the topic at hand / Warren DeBoer -- Generic pots and generic Indians: the archaeology of ethnogenesis in the middle Orinoco / Kay Tarble de Scaramelli and Franz Scaramelli -- An attempt to understand Panoan ethnogenesis in relation to long-term patterns and transformations of regional interaction in western Amazonia / Alf Hornborg and Love Eriksen -- Amazonian ritual communication in relation to multilingual social networks / Ellen B. Basso -- The spread of the Arawakan languages: a view from structural phylogenetics / Swintha Danielsen, Michael Dunn, and Pieter Muysken -- Comparative Arawak linguistics: notes on reconstruction, diffusion, and Amazonian prehistory / Sidney da Silva Facundes and Ana Paula B. Brandão -- Linguistic diversity zones and cartographic modeling: GIS as a method for understanding the prehistory of lowland South America / Östen Dahl [and others] -- Nested identities in the southern Guyana-Surinam corner / Eithne B. Carlin -- Change, contact, and ethnogenesis in northern Quechua: structural phylogenetic approaches to clause embedding predicates / Pieter Muysken -- Sacred landscapes as environmental histories in lowland South America / Jonathan D. Hill -- Constancy in continuity?: native oral history, iconography, and earthworks on the upper Purús river / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- Ethnogenesis at the interface of the Andes and the Amazon: re-examining ethnicity in the piedmont region of Apolobamba, Bolivia / Meredith Dudley -- Ethnogenesis and interculturality in the "forest of Canelos": the wild and the tame revisited / Norman E. Whitten Jr. -- Captive identities or the genesis of subordinate quasi-ethnic collectivities in the American tropics / Fernando Santos-Granero -- Afterword: ethnicity in ancient Amazonia / Neil L. Whitehead.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Ethnic identityIndians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- LanguagesIndians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- AntiquitiesAnthropological linguistics -- Amazon River RegionEthnicity -- Amazon River RegionEthnohistory -- Amazon River RegionAmazon River Region -- Ethnic relationsAmazon River Region -- AntiquitiesTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.