The most powerful image of white people in the imagery of the Piaroa, jungle dwellers of the Venezuelan Amazon Territory, is a giant conquistador ogre who is their Master of the Jungle. The paper places the figure of this monstrous spirit being within the context of the Piaroa discourse upon alterity in general, and notes that the stress is most saliently upon the potency, rather than the inferiority, of the stranger. The indigenous concern is with the human predicament itself, and upon the absurdities and danger as well as the positive strength of human power. Also, in unfolding the Piaroa view of white people as exotic beings, the paper contrasts the Native American ethnocentrisms with that of European discourse upon alterity, especially ...
For Amazonian peoples we have the question of just what is the relation of Power to Polity and Socie...
This article seeks an approximation between Pierre Clastres and Amerindian perspectivism. The argume...
The chronicle of Gaspar de Carvajal about his journey through the Amazon River is the first historic...
The most powerful image of white people in the imagery of the Piaroa, jungle dwellers of the Venezue...
This study explores evocations of the concept of the "Amazon Woman" and her female tribe, from cross...
Imperial Europe’s relationship with the tropical world was characterized by intrigue and fascination...
Through the analysis of two works of the Spanish Golden Age, the drama Amazonas en las Indias by Tir...
This scientific essay has as its theme the reflection on writings produced by European colonizers wh...
The Peruvian Amazon region is the scenery where a terrifying figure, known as sacacara, pelacara or ...
From the analysis of four testimonial books about the kidnapping of people from the “Los Canjeables”...
The author shows how the Piaroa (Venezuela) have managed to avoid any kind of violent resolution of ...
La Amazonia ecuatoriana se presenta como un "espacio vacío" generador de conflictos donde se recrean...
Ontoanthropology, a research program proposed by the Unilibrista [Libre University] School of Though...
Obra ressenyada: Fernando SANTOS-GRANERO (ed.), Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being...
El trabajo examina cómo el arquetipo clásico de la Amazona renace y se reinventa al calor de la encr...
For Amazonian peoples we have the question of just what is the relation of Power to Polity and Socie...
This article seeks an approximation between Pierre Clastres and Amerindian perspectivism. The argume...
The chronicle of Gaspar de Carvajal about his journey through the Amazon River is the first historic...
The most powerful image of white people in the imagery of the Piaroa, jungle dwellers of the Venezue...
This study explores evocations of the concept of the "Amazon Woman" and her female tribe, from cross...
Imperial Europe’s relationship with the tropical world was characterized by intrigue and fascination...
Through the analysis of two works of the Spanish Golden Age, the drama Amazonas en las Indias by Tir...
This scientific essay has as its theme the reflection on writings produced by European colonizers wh...
The Peruvian Amazon region is the scenery where a terrifying figure, known as sacacara, pelacara or ...
From the analysis of four testimonial books about the kidnapping of people from the “Los Canjeables”...
The author shows how the Piaroa (Venezuela) have managed to avoid any kind of violent resolution of ...
La Amazonia ecuatoriana se presenta como un "espacio vacío" generador de conflictos donde se recrean...
Ontoanthropology, a research program proposed by the Unilibrista [Libre University] School of Though...
Obra ressenyada: Fernando SANTOS-GRANERO (ed.), Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being...
El trabajo examina cómo el arquetipo clásico de la Amazona renace y se reinventa al calor de la encr...
For Amazonian peoples we have the question of just what is the relation of Power to Polity and Socie...
This article seeks an approximation between Pierre Clastres and Amerindian perspectivism. The argume...
The chronicle of Gaspar de Carvajal about his journey through the Amazon River is the first historic...