Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Maps xiii
5. Tables xv
6. Preface xvii
7. Chapter One Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia 1
8. Part I Archaeology
9. Chapter Two Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in the Pre-colonial Central Amazon 31
10. Chapter Three Deep History, Cultural Identities, and Ethnogenesis in the Southern Amazon 57
11. Chapter Four Deep Time, Big Space: An Archaeologist Skirts the Topic at Hand 75
12. Chapter Five Generic Pots and Generic Indians: The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis in the Middle Orinoco 99
13. Chapter Six An Attempt to Understand Panoan Ethnogenesis in Relation to Long-Term Patterns and Transformations of Regional Interaction in Western Amazonia 129
14. Part II Linguistics
15. Chapter Seven Amazonian Ritual Communication in Relation to Multilingual Social Networks 155
16. Chapter Eight The Spread of the Arawakan Languages: A View from Structural Phylogenetics 173
17. Chapter Nine Comparative Arawak Linguistics: Notes on Reconstruction, Diffusion, and Amazonian Prehistory 197
18. Chapter Ten Linguistic Diversity Zones and Cartographic Modeling: GIS as a Method for Understanding the Prehistory of Lowland South America 211
19. Chapter Eleven Nested Identities in the Southern Guyana-Surinam Corner 225
20. Chapter Twelve Change, Contact, and Ethnogenesis in Northern Quechua: Structural Phylogenetic Approaches to Clause-Embedding Predicates 237
21. Part III Ethnohistory
22. Chapter Thirteen Sacred Landscapes as Environmental Histories in Lowland South America 259
23. Chapter Fourteen Constancy in Continuity? Native Oral History, Iconography, and Earthworks on the Upper Purús River 279
24. Chapter Fifteen Ethnogenesis at the Interface of the Andes and the Amazon: Re-examining Ethnicity in the Piedmont Region of Apolobamba, Bolivia 297
25. Chapter Sixteen Ethnogenesis and Interculturality in the “Forest of Canelos”: The Wild and the Tame Revisited 321
26. Chapter Seventeen Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics 335
27. Chapter Eighteen Afterword: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia 349
28. Contributors 359
29. Index 369