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, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora.
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, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora.
Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
352
Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia
352Paperback(Reprint)
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252073847 |
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| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Publication date: | 12/29/2006 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |