Histories and historicities in Amazonia / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003], ©2003.

xx, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

"Derives from a special session of the American Society for Ethnohistory that was part of a series of plenary sessions on global and local histories"--Introd.

From keeping it oral to writing to mapping : the Kuyujani legacy and the De'kuana Self-Demarcation Project / Domingo A. Medina -- The Arawak-speaking groups of northwestern Amazonia : Amerindian cartography as a way of preserving and interpreting the past / Silvia M. Vidal -- Three patamuna trees : landscape and history in the Guyana Highlands / Neil L. Whitehead -- Power encounters / Berta E. Pérez -- Rebellious memories : the Wapishana in the Rupununi Uprising, Guyana, 1969 / Nádia Farage -- Decolonizing history : ritual transformation of the past among the Guajá of eastern Amazonia / Loretta Cormier -- Guyanese history, Makuski historicities, and Amerindian rights / Mary Riley -- Caña : the role of aguardiente in the colonization of the Orinoco / Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble -- Ceremonial feasting in the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos : some remarks on its sociopolitical and historical significance / Rafael Gassón.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.