Fluent Selves
Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America
Gebonden Engels 2014 9780803249905Samenvatting
Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood. The volume's exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology.
Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the "Western individual" and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of "myth" and "history," the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course
Part 1. Neither Myth nor History
1. "Like the Ancient Ones": The Intercultural Dynamics of Personal Biography in Amazonian Ecuador
Casey High
2. "This Happened to Me": Exemplary Personal Experience Narratives among the Piro (Yine) People of Peruvian Amazonia
Peter Gow
3. Memories of the Ucayali: The Asháninka Story Line
Hanne Veber
Part 2. Persons within Persons
4. Multiple Biographies: Shamanism and Personhood among the Marubo of Western Amazonia
Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
5. The End of Me: The Role of Destiny in Mapuche Narratives of the Person
Magnus Course
Part 3. Creating Sociality across Divides
6. Relieving Apprehension and Limiting Risk: The Rituals of Extraordinary Communicative Contacts
Ellen B. Basso
7. The Lascivious Life of Gabriel Gentil
Oscar Calavia Sáez
Part 4. Hybridity, Dissonance, and Reflection
8. An Indigenous Capitão's Reflections on a Mid-Twentieth-Century Brazilian "Middle Ground"
Suzanne Oakdale
9. Fluid Subjectivity: Reflections on Self and Alternative Futures in the Autobiographical Narrative of Hiparidi Top'tiro, a Xavante Transcultural Leader
Laura R. Graham
10. Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil)
Bruna Franchetto
Contributors
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan