Of Mixed Blood

Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2690230
AutoresP Gow (0000-0003-3285-8856, autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Páginas331
Data de publicação1991-10-24
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoOf mixed blood (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198273554.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388344325
Open LibraryOL1532237M
ISBN9780198273554
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDgeUzZIJyTIsC
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas161

Peter Gow's *Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia* offers an ethnographic study of the Piro people of the Bajo Urubamba River region. Challenging conventional portrayals of Amazonian indigenous groups as passive victims of acculturation, Gow focuses on Piro claims of "mixed blood" and their engagement with institutions like schools and land reform laws. He argues that these claims, when understood within the context of Piro values and their active creation of life through interactions with the forest and commodity economy, reveal a dynamic process of kinship construction. Rather than being external impositions, historical changes are integrated into the ongoing creation and negotiation of kinship relations. The study provides a nuanced perspective on the interplay between history, kinship, and cultural change in Amazonia

Amazon rainforest · Amazonian · Archaeology · Commodity · Context (archaeology · Economics · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Kinship · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Economic conditions · Indians of South America · Land tenure · Mixed descent · Peru · Social conditions · Urubamba River Valley