Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia: reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory - Hornborg, Alf, editor; Hill, Jonathan D., editor; University Press of Colorado, publisher (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011)
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.
Keywords: Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Ethnic identity; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Languages; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Antiquities; Anthropological linguistics -- Amazon River Region; Ethnicity -- Amazon River Region; Ethnohistory -- Amazon River Region; Amazon River Region -- Ethnic relations; Amazon River Region -- Antiquities