Fluent Selves : Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America

Oakdale, Suzanne (EDT)/ Course, Magnus (EDT)

University of Nebraska Press（2014/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780803249905
• DDC分類 980

Full Description

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. 

Contents

List of Illustrations                                                                                                    

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