Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia

by Peter Gow

Overview

This book is an ethnography of the native people of the Bajo Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia. Gow attempts to account for the fact that the people of this region appear to be very acculturated when compared to better-known indigenous Amazonian peoples. He argues that when native people's claims are viewed from the perspective of their own values, and in the context of their creation of life through the productive transformation of the forest and the commodity economy, they can be seen to form a coherent part of kinship. Historical change is thus revealed as interior to the ongoing creation of kinship for native people, rather than alien to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198273554
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/19/1991
Series:	Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.81(h) x 1.01(d)
Lexile:	1290L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of East Anglia

Editorial Reviews

"A brilliantly worked phenomenological emphasis on natve people's understandings of time, space, knowledge, kinship, and progress....The analysis is rich and insightful."—American Anthropologist

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