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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Illustrations
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Broken Mirrors: Amazonia As Imagined World
Lost Civilizations, Again?
History, Ecology, and Power
Part I: Visualizing Deep Temporality
Chapter 2: Culture and History: The Longue Durée
The Southern Amazon
The Southern Periphery
Xinguano Cultural Schema
Chapter 3: Traces of Ancient Times
Basic Chronology
A Tale of Two Towns: The Western Complex
The Ipatse Cluster
Heulugihïtï, Place of the “Horned” Jaguar
The Kuhikugu Cluster
Other Western Complex Sites
The Eastern Complex
Tehukugu (X14):
Kuguhi (X15)
Ipatse (X12)
Other Eastern Complex Sites
Chapter 4: Social Dynamics Before Europe
A Thread of Ariadne
Ancient Xinguano Regime As Galactic Polity
War and Peace In the Age of Inka
Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Empire: Colonialism and Ethnogenesis
Kingdom of the Parecis
A Brief History of “Contact”
The Construction of Xinguano Pluralism
Demography and Social Change
Part II: Body, Memory, and History
Chapter 6: Landscape and Livelihood: The Ethos of Settled Village Life
Making a Living
Basic Diet
Objects As Subjects
Pottery
Productivity
Chapter 7: In the Midst of Others: Landscapes of Memory
The Mirror World of Dawn Time
The Skin of the Land
Village and Countryside
Place and Place-Making: The Sites of Memory
Visualizing Landscape: Memory and Representation
Chapter 8: Houses, Heroes, and History: The Fractal Person
Xinguano Social Memory: Enchainments
Chiefs and Others
Village As “House”
Chapter 9: The Symbolic Economy of Power: Plazas As Persons
The Xinguano Plaza
Making Chiefs
Socio-Ethnophysics
Plazas As Persons
The Symbolic Economy of Power
Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Pedigree of a Contradiction
Persons Large and Small
Chiefdoms, or What?
Big-Men, Great-Men, Chiefs, and Others
The Structural Contradiction and the Theater State
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Bibliography
Orthography and Glossary of Indigenous Terms
Kuikuru Orthography
Kuikuru Words Used In Text
Place Names (Non-Kuikuru Names; -Ekugu and -Hïtï Common Place Suffixes)
Ancestral or Spirit Figures
Numbers
Names of Cultural Groups In Upper Xingu
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