Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia

Contributors

Contributors peter gow teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.He is the author of Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia (1991) and has done ethnographic and historical research with the Piro and neighboring indigenous peoples of eastern Peru for the past fifteen years. michael j. heckenberger teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida and has done ethnographic and archaeological work with Arawakan peoples living in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil. He is the editor of a forthcoming book on the Upper Xingu peoples and is part of a research team doing field excavations at Acutuba along the Lower Rio Negro in Brazil. jonathan d. hill teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and has conducted ethnographic and historical research for the past twenty years in the Upper Rio Negro (Guainía) basin of Venezuela. He is the author of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society (1993) and the editor of Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past (1988) and History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492– 1992 (1996). alan passes is affiliated with the Centre for IndigenousAmerican Studies and Exchange of the School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and has done fieldwork with the 13.CONTRIB.327-330/H&S 6/4/02, 10:14 AM 327 328 Contributors Pai’kwené (Palikur) of northeastern Brazil.He is coeditor (with Joanna Overing ) of The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia (2000). france-marie renard-casevitz is a staff researcher with the Equipe de Recherche en Ethnologie Amerindienne at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris, where she specializes in the ethnology and history of the Machiguenga of eastern Peru. She is the author of Le Banquet Masqué: Une Mythologie de l’Etranger (1991) and coauthor (with Thierry Saignes and Anne Christine Taylor) of L’Inca, l’Espagnol, et les Sauvages. Rapports entre les Sociétés Amazoniennes et Andines du XVe au XVIIe Siècle (1986). fernando santos-granero is a staff researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, and has done fieldwork with the Yanesha of eastern Peru. He is author of The Power of Love: The Moral Use of Knowledge amongst the Amuesha of Central Peru (1991) and Etnohistoria de la Alta Amazonía, Siglos XV–XVIII (1992). He is coauthor (with Frederica Barclay) of Selva Central: History, Economy and Land Use in Peruvian Amazonia (1998) and Tamed Frontiers: Economy, Society, and Civil Rights in UpperAmazonia (2000).He is also coeditor (with Frederica Barclay) of the threevolume work Guía Etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía (1994, 1994, 2000). sidney da silva facundes teaches in the Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal do Pará. He specializes in the comparative linguistics of theArawakan family of languages in Lowland SouthAmerica and has done field research among the Apurinã of southwestern Brazil. silvia m. vidal teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas and has done fieldwork among Arawak-speaking peoples of the Upper Rio Negro in Venezuela for the past twenty-five years. She is coeditor (with Alberta Zucchi) of Historia y Etnicidad en el Noroeste Amazónico (1998). neil l. whitehead teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has done historical and ethnographic fieldwork on Arawak-speaking peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean Basin . He is the editor of Ethnohistory (journal) and Wolves from the Sea: Readings in the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Island Carib (1995), has annotated a new edition of The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful 13.CONTRIB.327-330/H&S 6/4/02, 10:14 AM 328 Contributors 329 Empire of Guiana by SirWalter Ralegh (1998),and has coedited (with R.Brian Ferguson) War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (1993). He is also the author of Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana, 1498–1820 (1988). robin m. wright teaches in the Department of Anthropology of the Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and has done fieldwork among the Baniwa of northwestern Brazil for twenty-five years.He is the author...