Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia – Anthropological Perspectives Fausto

Time and Memory in Indigenous AmazoniaAnthropological Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Carlos Fausto, Michael Heckenberger\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9780813044798, 978-0813044798\nSynopsis\nBased on recent ethnographic fieldwork and firsthand analysis of indigenous history, this collection examines the concepts of time and change as they played out in areas ranging from religion, cosmology, and mortuary practices to attitudes toward ethnic difference and the treatment of animals. Without imposing traditionally Western notions of what time and change mean, the collection looks at how native Amazonians experienced forms of cultural memory and at how their narratives of the past helped construct their sense of the present and, inevitably, their own identity.\n\nThe volume offers some of the most interesting and nuanced discussions to date on Amazonian conceptualisations of temporality and change.