Author: Michael F. Brown
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744896
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms. When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about them other than their ancestors’ reputation as fearsome headhunters. The fledgling anthropologist was immediately impressed by his hosts’ vivacity and resourcefulness. But eventually his investigations led him into darker corners of a world where murderous vendettas, fear of sorcery, and a shocking incidence of suicide were still common. Peru’s Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s forced Brown to refocus his work elsewhere. Revisiting his field notes decades later, now with an older man’s understanding of life’s fragility, Brown saw a different story: a tribal society trying, and sometimes failing, to maintain order in the face of an expanding capitalist frontier. Curious about how the Awajún were faring, Brown returned to the site in 2012, where he found a people whose combative self-confidence had led them to the forefront of South America’s struggle for indigenous rights. Written with insight, sensitivity, and humor, Upriver paints a vivid picture of a rapidly growing population that is refashioning its warrior tradition for the twenty-first century. Embracing literacy and digital technology, the Awajún are using hard-won political savvy to defend their rainforest home and right of self-determination.
Upriver
Author: Michael F. Brown
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744896
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms. When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about them other than their ancestors’ reputation as fearsome headhunters. The fledgling anthropologist was immediately impressed by his hosts’ vivacity and resourcefulness. But eventually his investigations led him into darker corners of a world where murderous vendettas, fear of sorcery, and a shocking incidence of suicide were still common. Peru’s Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s forced Brown to refocus his work elsewhere. Revisiting his field notes decades later, now with an older man’s understanding of life’s fragility, Brown saw a different story: a tribal society trying, and sometimes failing, to maintain order in the face of an expanding capitalist frontier. Curious about how the Awajún were faring, Brown returned to the site in 2012, where he found a people whose combative self-confidence had led them to the forefront of South America’s struggle for indigenous rights. Written with insight, sensitivity, and humor, Upriver paints a vivid picture of a rapidly growing population that is refashioning its warrior tradition for the twenty-first century. Embracing literacy and digital technology, the Awajún are using hard-won political savvy to defend their rainforest home and right of self-determination.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744896
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In this remarkable story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence—remain determined, against long odds, to live life on their own terms. When Brown took up residence with the Awajún in 1976, he knew little about them other than their ancestors’ reputation as fearsome headhunters. The fledgling anthropologist was immediately impressed by his hosts’ vivacity and resourcefulness. But eventually his investigations led him into darker corners of a world where murderous vendettas, fear of sorcery, and a shocking incidence of suicide were still common. Peru’s Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s forced Brown to refocus his work elsewhere. Revisiting his field notes decades later, now with an older man’s understanding of life’s fragility, Brown saw a different story: a tribal society trying, and sometimes failing, to maintain order in the face of an expanding capitalist frontier. Curious about how the Awajún were faring, Brown returned to the site in 2012, where he found a people whose combative self-confidence had led them to the forefront of South America’s struggle for indigenous rights. Written with insight, sensitivity, and humor, Upriver paints a vivid picture of a rapidly growing population that is refashioning its warrior tradition for the twenty-first century. Embracing literacy and digital technology, the Awajún are using hard-won political savvy to defend their rainforest home and right of self-determination.
Upriver
Author: Robert D. Cardona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780434950621
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780434950621
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Upriver Journeys
Author: Steven B. Miles
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Tracing journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, this book describes the circulation of people through one of the world’s great river systems between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Steven B. Miles examines the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier, and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in the homeland of what would become a global diaspora. Based on archival research and multisite fieldwork, this innovative history of mobility explores a set of diasporic practices ranging from the manipulation of household registration requirements to the maintenance of split families. Many of the institutions and practices that facilitated overseas migration were not adaptations of tradition to transnational modernity; rather, they emerged in the early modern era within the context of riverine migration. Likewise, the extension and consolidation of empire required not only unidirectional frontier settlement and sedentarization of indigenous populations. It was also responsible for the regular circulation between homeland and frontier of people who drove imperial expansion—even while turning imperial aims toward their own purposes of socioeconomic advancement.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Tracing journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, this book describes the circulation of people through one of the world’s great river systems between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Steven B. Miles examines the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier, and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in the homeland of what would become a global diaspora. Based on archival research and multisite fieldwork, this innovative history of mobility explores a set of diasporic practices ranging from the manipulation of household registration requirements to the maintenance of split families. Many of the institutions and practices that facilitated overseas migration were not adaptations of tradition to transnational modernity; rather, they emerged in the early modern era within the context of riverine migration. Likewise, the extension and consolidation of empire required not only unidirectional frontier settlement and sedentarization of indigenous populations. It was also responsible for the regular circulation between homeland and frontier of people who drove imperial expansion—even while turning imperial aims toward their own purposes of socioeconomic advancement.
Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem
Author: Brent Douglas Galloway
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520945182
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1729
Book Description
An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520945182
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1729
Book Description
An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.
Upriver Hydroelectric Project, Spokane River, Spokane County
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
City of Spokane Upriver Dam Hydroelectric Project
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Chemical Data for Water Samples Collected During Four Upriver Cruises on the Mississippi River Between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1990-April 1992
Author: John Alexander Moody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Up River
Author: Olive Pierce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A portrait in photos and words of the realities of life in a small Maine fishing village.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A portrait in photos and words of the realities of life in a small Maine fishing village.
The Danube
Author: Nick Thorpe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300181655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The author takes us on an unexpected journey "up" the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300181655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The author takes us on an unexpected journey "up" the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world
Upriver
Author: Virginia Eliason Silva
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description