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Author : Anthony Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173013740650
Author : Anthony Seeger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252072022
"Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suya Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suya - and by extension for other groups - through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in an initiation ceremony." "This new paperback edition features a CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers." -- Prové de l'editor.
Author : Anthony Seeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001980930
Author : Elizabeth Ewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181715
Hailed once as ‘giants of the Amazon’, Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and Society in Central Brazil is a unique ethnographic account, in which analytical approaches to social organisation are brought into dialogue with Panará social categories and values as told in their own terms. Exploring concepts such as space, material goods, and ideas about enemies, this book examines how social categories transform in time and reveals the ways in which Panará people themselves produce their identities in constant dialogue with the forms of alterity that surround them. Clearly and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students, scholars and anyone interested in the complex lives and histories of indigenous Amazonian societies.
Author : Philippe Descola,Gisli Palsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134827152
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.
Author : Robert S. Ridgely,John A. Gwynne,Guy Tudor,Martha Argel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501704307
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and is one of the planet's richest places for bird diversity, especially when it comes to the number of endemic species. Brazil's Atlantic Forest region is one of the most dazzling of all. Immediately surrounding São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, this area of Brazil is also a relatively accessible area to birders from around the world. In the Birds of Brazil Field Guides, the Wildlife Conservation Society brings together a top international team to do justice to the incredible diversity of Brazilian birds. This second guide presents 927 bird species, 863 illustrated, that occur in just the southeastern Atlantic Forest biome (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese). Of these species, 140 are endemic and 105 near endemic to just this region; 83 of these are threatened. Modern and compact, this field guide provides illustrations of unparalleled quality, key field marks, and regional range maps to facilitate easy recognition of all species normally occurring in this vibrant and critically important area of Brazil.
Author : Elizabeth Ewart
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857855800
Hailed once as giants of the Amazon , Panará people emerged onto a world stage in the early 1970s. What followed is a remarkable story of socio-demographic collapse, loss of territory, and subsequent recovery. Reduced to just 79 survivors in 1976, Panará people have gone on to recover and reclaim a part of their original lands in an extraordinary process of cultural and social revival. Space and Society in Central Brazil is a unique ethnographic account, in which analytical approaches to social organisation are brought into dialogue with Panará social categories and values as told in their own terms. Exploring concepts such as space, material goods, and ideas about enemies, this book examines how social categories transform in time and reveals the ways in which Panará people themselves produce their identities in constant dialogue with the forms of alterity that surround them. Clearly and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students, scholars and anyone interested in the complex lives and histories of indigenous Amazonian societies.
Author : European Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415132169
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Zélia M. Bora,Murali Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498581158
Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains. This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers “losing nature.” In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential “balance” of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reconstructed and deconstructed at will by the powerful influence of the past alongside that of globalization and technocratic market structures. The volume contemplates the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.
Author : David Maybury-Lewis,Uri Almagor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0472080865
Explores why societies throughout the world organize social thought and institutions in patterns of opposites
Author : Glauco Sanga,Gherardo Ortalli
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1571818235
Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most prominent scholars have come together in this volume to reflect on what has been achieved so far, to compare the work carried out in the past, to discuss the problems that have emerged from different research projects, and to map out the way forward.
Author : Daniel W. Gade
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0299161242
This text reveals the intimate and unexpected relationships of plants, animals and people in western South America. Daniel Gade encourages the reader to look beyond the obvious to see the true complexity of ecological relationships.
Author : Hubert Knoblauch,Helga Kotthoff
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3823357093
Author : William L. Balée,Clark L. Erickson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780231135627
An important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology, this volume illuminates the ways in which the landscape reflects human history and culture. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives on the effects of human societies on the neotropical lowlands of South and Central America.
Author : E. Rust
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313033353
Despite the world-wide association of music and dance with religion, this is the first full-length study of the subject from a global perspective. The work consists of 3,816 references divided among 37 chapters. It covers tribal, regional, and global religions and such subjects as shamanism, liturgical dance, healing, and the relationship of music, mathematics, and mysticism. The referenced materials display such diverse approaches as analysis of music and dance, description of context, direct experience, observation, and speculation. The references address topics from such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, linguistics, musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, medicine, semiotics, and computer technology. Chapter 1 consists of general references to religious music and dance. The remaining 36 chapters are organized according to major geographical areas. Most chapters begin with general reference works and bibliographies, then continue with topics specific to the region or religion. This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in music, dance, religion, or culture.