Contiene: The indians as objects and actors in Latin American history - The Northern region - Generak remarks on the contributors and the geographical region - The Egalitarian Society in Colonial - Retrospect: Embera Leadership and conflict management under the spanish 1660-1810 - Wives for sisters: the management of marriage exchange in Nothwest Amazonía - Of women, men and manioc - The Andes - General ramarks on the contributors and the geographical region - Ancestors, Grave, Robert and the possible antecedents of Cañari "Inca-ism" - Quest for a New covenant: the role of Urine in Andean Notions of Health and the Cosmos - Perspectives on Amarakaeri history - Matsigenka Social Organization as expressed in their Settlement pattern - The Outside Overwhelms: Yaminahua Dual Organization and its decline - Brazilian Amazonia European Indians and Indian Europeans: Aspects of reciprocaal and Social classification on the Brazilian East Coast in the early period of contact - First he locked them in: a creation myth of the gaviao and the zoro Indians of Brazil - Time and Social theory: reconsiderations from Central Brazil.

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