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v CONTENTS List of illustrations vi Preface vii acknowledgments and a note on authorship ix introduction. “The Things Left in the Ground”: introducing archaeology to arukwa 1 1. “are you Here?”: Personhood, Presence, Knowledges, and Knowing 28 2. “so Many stories on This Day-World”: History as the retracing of Tracks 51 3. Journeys with the rain stars: Making sense of the Moving Cosmos 79 4. The Curvature of surfaces: Cartesian space, the Topology of Palikur Grammar, and Consubjective space 142 5. “reading the Tracks of the ancestors”: resources for assembling Times Past 161 6. The story Trails of Kwap: archaeology, Provenance, and an ecology of Predation 177 epilogue. Beyond Matter set in space and Time: engaging amerindian Thought in Public archaeology 241 notes 265 Bibliography 291 index 303 ...

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