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Unknown Amazon : culture in nature in ancient Brazil / edited by Colin McEwan, Christiana Barreto and Eduardo Neves.

Contributor(s): McEwan, Colin | Barreto, Cristiana | Neves, Eduardo | British Museum. Department of Ethnography
Language: English Publisher: London : British Museum Press, 2001.Description: 304p. : ill., maps, col. photos. ; 28cm.ISBN: 071412558XSubject(s): Indian art -- Amazon River Region | Art, Brazilian | Amazon River Valley -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 745.089980811
Contents:
I, Economy and subsistence. Foragers of the Amazon / Gustavo Politis; The archaeology of forest foraging and agricultural production / José R. Oliver; Gift from the past: Terra Preta and prehistoric Amerindian occupation / James B. Petersen, E. Neves, M.J. Heckenberger; II, Archaeology and society. Into the labyrinths of Marajoara pottery / Denise Schaan; Santarém / Denise Gomes; Encountering the ancestors: the Maracá urns / V. Guapindaia; III, Ideology: visual and material culture. Seats of power: axiality and access to invisible worlds / Colin McEwan; The woven universe: Carib basketry / Lucia van Velthem; Testimony in stone: rock art / Edithe Pereira; IV, Encounters. Exploring the Amazon / C. Barreto, Juliana Machado; One blow scatters the brains: an ethnographic history of the Guiana war club / Warwick Bray; Indigenous historical trajectories in the Upper Rio Negro basin / E. Neves.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Exhibitions Shelves CAT/2001-2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 104587.DES.1
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KUP [McE-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M40093
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Anthropology Library and Research Centre KUP [McE-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available M40095
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KUP [McE-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 4 Checked out 28/09/2021 L74453
Total holds: 0

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the British Museum, 25 October 2001 to 1 April 2002.

Bibliography : p. 287-299.

I, Economy and subsistence. Foragers of the Amazon / Gustavo Politis; The archaeology of forest foraging and agricultural production / José R. Oliver; Gift from the past: Terra Preta and prehistoric Amerindian occupation / James B. Petersen, E. Neves, M.J. Heckenberger; II, Archaeology and society. Into the labyrinths of Marajoara pottery / Denise Schaan; Santarém / Denise Gomes; Encountering the ancestors: the Maracá urns / V. Guapindaia; III, Ideology: visual and material culture. Seats of power: axiality and access to invisible worlds / Colin McEwan; The woven universe: Carib basketry / Lucia van Velthem; Testimony in stone: rock art / Edithe Pereira; IV, Encounters. Exploring the Amazon / C. Barreto, Juliana Machado; One blow scatters the brains: an ethnographic history of the Guiana war club / Warwick Bray; Indigenous historical trajectories in the Upper Rio Negro basin / E. Neves.

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