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Food crops --- Agriculture --- Indians of South America --- Indians of South America --- History. --- History. --- Food --- Agriculture

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The morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. The indigenous languages of South America remain under-documented and little accessible to theoretical linguistics. Most regions and language families of the continent are represented in articles based on recent fieldwork by the authors. Included are data concerning a diverse set of reduplication phenomena from the Andes, Amazonia, and other regions of the continent. A wide range of language families and isolates are discussed, such as Tupian, Quechuan, Mapuche, Tacanan, Arawakan, Barbacoan, and Macro-Jê. Several languages present unusual properties, some of which violate presumed universals, such as no partial without full reduplication.

Indians of South America --- Language and culture --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Languages. --- South America

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Thomas Falkner (1707-84), one-time pupil of both Richard Mead and Isaac Newton, was an English Jesuit missionary who lived for nearly forty years in South America until 1767, when he returned to England following the Jesuits' expulsion from Cordoba. Originally published in 1774, this is a first-hand description of Patagonia, believed to have been consulted by Charles Darwin on board the Beagle. Illustrated with a map drawn from the author's knowledge and experience, it is an account of the dramatic physical geography of the area as well as the customs, beliefs and language of its inhabitants. Falkner's narrative ranges from a discussion of the virtues of American tea (in certain particulars 'far excelling the tea of China') to a detailed depiction of the role of wizards and rituals involving demons.

Indians of South America --- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) --- Description and travel.

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Un hommage à l'esprit de résistance jivaro contre toute politique d'assimilation.On les appelle Jivaros. Ils préfèrent se dénommer Achuar, les Gens du Palmier d'eau. Isolés dans la jungle de Haute-Amazonie, aux confins de l'Equateur et du Pérou, cette tribu légendaire fut protégée durant des siècles de l'incursion des Blancs par son inquiétante réputation de chasseurs de têtes. Plus qu'une condition ... On les appelle Jivaros. Ils préfèrent se dénommer Achuar, les Gens du Palmier d'eau. Isolés dans la jungle de Haute-Amazonie, aux confins de l'Equateur et du Pérou, cette tribu légendaire fut protégée durant des siècles de l'incursion des Blancs par son inquiétante réputation de chasseurs de têtes. Plus qu'une condition de leur indépendance, la guerre est pour ces Indiens une vertu cardinale ; elle donne du prestige, renforce la solidarité, raffermit l'identité ethnique et permet le renouvellement rituel des âmes. Grâce à elle, les Achuar sont encore plusieurs milliers, fiers de leurs traditions et farouchement attachés à leur mode de vie. Ce livre est une chronique de leur découverte et un hommage à leur résistance.L'auteur y relate au quotidien les étapes d'une intimité affective et intellectuelle croissante avec ce peuple dont il a partagé l'existence pendant près de trois années comme anthropologue. Tableau des temps ordinaires comme des événements tragiques, ce récit évoque aussi un apprentissage initiatique mené à l'écoute des mythes et des chants magiques, de l'interprétation des rêves et de l'enseignement des chamans. Une pensée riche et poétique s'en dégage, bouleversant nos conceptions de la connaissance, du sentiment religieux et des rapports à la nature. Des fondements de la violence collective à la logique de la sorcellerie, des principes de l'autorité politique à la définition de l'identité culturelle, de la philosophie de l'échange à l'intelligence de l'environnement, ce témoignage exceptionnel sur une manière libre, et presque oubliée, de vivre la condition humaine tire d'une expérience singulière un enseignement pour le temps présent.

Jivaro Indians. --- Achuar Indians. --- Indians of South America --- Indians --- Social life and customs.

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Household archaeology, together with community and regional settlement information, forms the basis for a unique local perspective of Andean prehistory in this study of the evolution of the site of Lukurmata, a pre-Columbian community in highland Bolivia. First established nearly two thousand years ago, Lukurmata grew to be a major ceremonial center in the Tiwanaku state, a polity that dominated the south-central Andes from a.d. 400 to 1200. After the Tiwanaku state collapsed, Lukurmata rapidly declined, becoming once again a small village. In his analysis of a 1300-year-long sequence of house remains at Lukurmata, Marc Bermann traces patterns and changes in the organization of domestic life, household ritual, ties to other communities, and mortuary activities, as well as household adaptations to overarching political and economic trends.Prehistorians have long studied the processes of Andean state formation, expansion, and decline at the regional level, notes Bermann. But only now are we beginning to understand how these changes affected the lives of the residents at individual settlements. Presenting a "view from below" of Andean prehistory based on a remarkably extensive data set, Lukurmata is a rare case study of how prehispanic polities can be understood in new ways if prehistorians integrate the different lines of evidence available to them.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Social change --- Tiwanaku culture. --- Indians of South America --- Antiquities. --- Lukurmata Site (Bolivia)