History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community

Suzanne Oakdale

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Indigenous Cultures and History Indigenous Studies in Latin America Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory

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This article explores a mode of historical consciousness constructed through mortuary rituals among a Brazilian Amazonian people. Paradoxically,the process of forgetting is argued to be crucial for this type of historical consciousness. The dual focus on historical consciousness and mortuary ritual shows how culturally specific notions of personhood, particularly those relating to life, death, and agency, are crucial for an adequate“ethno-ethnohistorical” understanding.

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1985Culture, Thought, and Social Action 1996Os pronomes cosmológicos e o perspectivismo ameríndio 1993Remembering to Forget: Identity, Mourning and Memory Among the Jivaro 1988Ritual Wailing in Amerindian Brazil 1992Sending My Heart Back Across the Years 1985A Musical View of the Universe 1992“since I am a woman, I will chastise my relatives”: gender, reported speech, and the (re)production of social relations in Warao ritual wailing 1995“thus are our bodies, thus was our custom”: mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society

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