Aucas Downriver; Dayuma's Story Today

Aucas Downriver; Dayuma's Story Today
Title Aucas Downriver; Dayuma's Story Today PDF eBook
Author Ethel Emily Wallis
Publisher
Pages 168
Release 1973
Genre Auca Indians
ISBN

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God in the Rainforest

God in the Rainforest
Title God in the Rainforest PDF eBook
Author Kathryn T. Long
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 481
Release 2019-01-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 0190608994

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In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century. God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries, anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the cross-hairs of globalization.

Between Worlds

Between Worlds
Title Between Worlds PDF eBook
Author Frances E. Karttunen
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 422
Release 1994
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780813520315

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Spanning the globe and the centuries, Frances Karttunen tells the stories of sixteen men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and anthropologists. These interpreters acted as uncomfortable bridges between two worlds; their own marginality, the fact that they belonged to neither world, suggests the complexity and tension between cultures meeting for the first time. Some of the guides were literally dragged into their roles; others volunteered. The most famous ones were especially skilled at living in two worlds and surviving to recount their experiences. Among outsiders, the interpreters found protection. sustenance, recognition, intellectual companionship, and employment, yet most of the interpreters ultimately suffered tragic fates. Between Worlds addresses the broadest issues of cross-cultural encounters, imperialism, and capitalism and gives them a human face.

International Law and Changing Perceptions of Security

International Law and Changing Perceptions of Security
Title International Law and Changing Perceptions of Security PDF eBook
Author Jonas Ebbesson
Publisher Hotei Publishing
Pages 372
Release 2014-08-07
Genre Law
ISBN 9004274588

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The traditional conception of security as national security against military threats has changed radically since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945. The perceived nature and sources of threats have been widened as well as the objects of protection, now including individuals, societies, the environment as such and the whole globe. In International Law and Changing Perceptions of Security the contributors reflect on whether and how changing concepts and conceptions of security have affected different fields of international law, such as the use of force, the law of the sea, human rights, international environmental law and international humanitarian law. The authors of this book have been inspired by Professor Said Mahmoudi to which this Liber Amoricum is dedicated.

The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America

The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America
Title The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America PDF eBook
Author Paul Valentine
Publisher University Press of Florida
Pages 317
Release 2017-05-09
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0813052890

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"Foremost scholars of indigenous Amazonia explore the vast and interesting gap between rules and practice, demonstrating how sociocultural systems endure and even prosper due to the flexibility, creativity, and resilience of the people within them."--Jeremy M. Campbell, author of Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon "A landmark volume and a major contribution to the study of kinship and marriage in Amazonian societies, an area of the world that has been pivotal to our understanding of the biocultural dimensions of cousin marriage and polygamy."--Nancy E. Levine, author of The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies—rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry. Using ethnographic case studies that draw on previously unpublished material from well-known indigenous cultures, The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America defies the tendency to focus only on the social structure of kinship and marriage that is so common in kinship studies. Instead, the contributors to this volume examine the people that conform to or deviate from that structure and their reasons for doing so. They look not only at deviations in kinship behavior motivated by gender, economics, politics, history, ecology, and sentimentality but also at how globalization and modernization are changing the ancestral norms and values themselves. This is a richly diverse portrayal of agency and individual choice alongside normative kinship and marriage systems in a region that has long been central to anthropological studies of indigenous life. Paul Valentine is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of East London. Stephen Beckerman is adjunct professor at the University of Utah. Together, Valentine and Beckerman have coedited Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America and Cultures of Multiple Fathers: The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in Lowland South America. Catherine Alès is director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, and is the author of Yanomami, l’ire et le désir.

Spirit of the Huaorani

Spirit of the Huaorani
Title Spirit of the Huaorani PDF eBook
Author Pete Oxford
Publisher
Pages 152
Release 2007
Genre Huao Indians
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Title Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Pages 1406
Release 1976
Genre Copyright
ISBN

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