Beyond the Visible and the Material The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivi?re

Focusing on the anthropological development of Amazonia, this volume explores the legacy of Peter Riviere, a recently retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. An international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics that include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking.

1 - Forty Years of Amazonian Anthropology: The Contribution of Peter Riviere
2 - Gut Feelings about Amazonia: Potential Affinity and the Construction of Sociality
3 - Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro
4 - Seed and Clone: The Symbolic and Social Signification of Bitter Manioc Cultivation
5 - The Blowpipe Indians: Variations on the Theme of Blowpipe and Tube among the Yagua Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
6 - Myth and Material Culture: Matis Blowguns, Palm Trees, and Ancestors
7 - From Longhouse to Village: Structure and Change in the Colombian Amazon
8 - The Composition of Me bengokre (Kayapo) Households in Central Brazil
9 - Piercing Distinctions: The Making (and Remaking) of Social Contract in the North West Amazon
10 - Inside and Out: Alterity and the Ceremonial Construction of the Person in the Guianas
11 - Itoto (Kanaima) as Death and Anti-Structure
12 - Kanaima: Shamanism and Ritual Death in the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana
13 - Finding One's Body: Relationships between Cosmology and Work in North West Amazonia
14 - The hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analysis of Gender