Amerindian experiences of change and hierarchy in recent ethnographies from South America

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https://doi.org/10.4000/154us

Palabras clave:

social change, hierarchy, amerindian studies, South America, ethnography

Resumen

I discuss four recent ethnographies relevant to two current debates in Amerindian South American anthropology: change and hierarchy. Firstly, I present some of their analytical tools and their approach to indigenous experiences in the Bolivian highlands, Patagonia, Brazilian Upper Xingu and Surinam. This review essay will not exhaustively discuss the content of these books but only those relevant to the comparison of these books’ main emergent problems and contributions.

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Juan Javier Rivera Andía, College of Fellows, Universidad De Tübingen, Tübingen, Alemania

Después de su doctorado, fue director del Museo de la Cultura Peruana e investigador en Europa y EEUU con el apoyo de la Maison de sciences de l’homme, la UNESCO, la Smithsonian Institution, la Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, entre otros. Ha publicado artículos, etnografías, compilatorios (“Non-Humans in Amerindian South America”) y documentales (“The Owners of the Land”) sobre las cosmologías de los Andes peruanos.

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Costa, Luiz. 2018. The owners of kinship: Asymmetrical relations in Indigenous Amazonia. Chicago: HAU Books.

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2025-11-24

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Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2025. «Amerindian Experiences of Change and Hierarchy in Recent Ethnographies from South America». Anuário Antropológico 50 (1):e-154us. https://doi.org/10.4000/154us.

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Vol. 50 Núm. 1 (2025): Anuário Antropológico

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