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

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Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia - Hill, Jonathan D (Editor), and Santos-Granero, Fernando (Editor)
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The first synthesis of the writings of ethnologists, historians, and anthropologists on contemporary Arawakan cultures Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas. Comparative Arawakan Histories, in paperback for the first time, examines social structures, political hierarchies, rituals, religious movements, ...

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Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia 2006, University of Illinois Press

ISBN-13: 9780252073847

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Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia 2002, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252027581

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