The Indigenous Languages of South America
The Indigenous Languages of South America

Author: Lyle Campbell

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-01-27

Total Pages: 765

ISBN-13: 311025803X

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The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.

Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolution

Author: Gary M. Feinman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1461541735

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Drawing on Kent Flannery's forty years of cross-cultural research in the area, the contributors to this collection reflect the current diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. Collectively the volume expresses the richness of the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term change, as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing to examine these questions.

Latin America, Its Problems And Its Promise
Latin America, Its Problems And Its Promise

Author: Jan Knippers Black

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 0429718837

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This textbook, extensively revised and updated in this new second edition, introduces the student to what is most basic and most interesting about Latin America. The authors-each widely recognized in his or her own discipline, as well as among Latin Americanists-analyze both the enduring features of the area and the pace and direction of change. Th

Native South Americans
Native South Americans

Author: Patricia Lyon

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-01-24

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1592444814

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Compilation of 39 original essays intended for use in teaching about the native peoples of South American with a concentration on those areas of South American that still contain functioning Indian cultures. Includes 17"x22" fold out map.

Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia
Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia

Author: Alf Hornborg

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1457111586

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"A major contribution to Amazonian anthropology, and possibly a direction changer." -J. Scott Raymond,University of Calgary A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate explanations of the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Amazonia. The evidence, however, suggests a much more fluid relationship among geography, language use, ethnic identity, and genetics. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia, leading linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists interpret their research from a unique nonessentialist perspective to form a more accurate picture of the ethnolinguistic diversity in this area. Revealing how ethnic identity construction is constantly in flux, contributors show how such processes can be traced through different ethnic markers such as pottery styles and languages. Scholars and students studying lowland South America will be especially interested, as will anthropologists intrigued by its cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach.