Upriver : : The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People / / Michael F. Brown.
In this remarkable story of one man's encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún-renowned for their pugnacity and fierce independence-remain determined, against long odds, t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 21 halftones, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note to Readers
- Introduction
- Part One. 1976-1978
- 1. Andean Prelude
- 2. Armadillo for Breakfast
- 3. Puzzle Pieces
- 4. Jesus versus the Warrior Spirits
- 5. Four Weddings and a Funeral
- 6. Trouble in Mind
- 7. Hard Lessons
- Part Two. 1980- 2012
- 8. Civilization's Twisting Road
- 9. Boundary Condition
- 10. Looking Back
- Notes
- Sources on the Awajún and Related Societies
- Acknowledgments
- Index