Description
The first description of Huaorani society and culture according to modern standards of ethnographic writing. Through her detailed comparative discussion of native Amazonian representations of history and the environment, Rival illustrates the unique way the Huaorani have socialized nature by choosing to depend on resources created in the past-highlighting the unique contribution anthropology makes to the study of environmental history.
About the Author
Laura Rival is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has written a number of ethnographic articles and papers on the Huaorani of Ecuador and the Makushi of Guyana. She is the editor of The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Approaches to Tree Symbolism and the co-editor of Beyond the Visible and the Material: the Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Riviere.
Reviews
Rival's fascinating ethnography demonstrates that ecological adaptation cannot be understood as resource extraction alone, it is deeply embedded in Huaorani identity, sociality, symbolism, and historicity... Rival's work represents an important contribution to this developing approach. -- Loretta Cormier Journal of Ethnobiology A superb job in addressing issues of native historicity. -- Michael A. Uzendoski Latin American Research Review [Rival's] rich ethnographic analysis and theoretical discussion provide key arguments and materials to re-think further Amazonian people's relationships to the environment. -- Luisa Elvira Belaunde, University of St Andrews Royal Anthropological Institute
Book Information
ISBN 9780231118453
Author Laura Rival
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press