Table of Contents

Introduction JONATHAN D. HILL AND FERNANDO SANTOS-GRANERO 1 PART 1: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES 1. The Arawakan Matrix: Ethos, Language, and History in Native South America FERNANDO SANTOS-GRANERO 25 2. Arawak Linguistic and Cultural Identity through Time: Contact, Colonialism, and Creolization NEIL L. WHITEHEAD 51 3. Historical Linguistics and Its Contribution to Improving the Knowledge of Arawak SIDNEY DA SILVA FACUNDES 74 PART 2: HIERARCHY, DIASPORA, AND NEW IDENTITIES 4. Rethinking the Arawakan Diaspora: Hierarchy, Regionality, and the Amazonian Formative MICHAEL J. HECKENBERGER 99 5. Social Forms and Regressive History: From the Campa Cluster to the Mojos and from the Mojos to the Landscaping Terrace- Builders of the Bolivian Savanna FRANCE-MARIE RENARD-CASEVITZ 123 6. Piro, Apurina, and Campa: Social Dissimilation and Assimilation as Historical Processes in Southwestern Amazonia PETER GOW 147 7. Both Omphalos and Margin: On How the Pa'ikwene (Palikur) See Themselves to Be at the Center and on the Edge at the Same Time ALAN PASSES 171 PART 3: POWER, CULTISM, AND SACRED LANDSCAPES 8. A New Model of the Northern Arawakan Expansion ALBERTA ZUCCHI 199 9. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Upper Rio Negro Region JONATHAN D. HILL 223 10. Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership: Multiethnic Confederacies from Northwestern Amazonia SILVIA M. VIDAL 248 11. Prophetic Traditions among the Baniwa and Other Arawakan Peoples of the Northwest Amazon ROBIN M. WRIGHT 269