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Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide
Linguistics - How languages can inform on the Andes-Amazonia divide
2020 •
Paul Heggarty
Upper Rio Negro. Cultural and linguistic interaction in northwestern Amazonia, eds. Patience Epps and Kristine Stenzel, 13-52. Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional, Museu do Índio-FUNAI.
Introduction: Upper Rio Negro. Cultural and linguistic interaction in northwestern Amazonia, coauthored with Patience Epps
Kristine Stenzel
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide
BOOK: Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide
2020 •
Paul Heggarty, David Beresford-Jones
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).
Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes
The Andean-Amazonian interface: Sociolinguistic relations and areal-typological patterns
2023 •
Nicholas Q Emlen
Preprint: Emlen, Nicholas Q., Rik van Gijn, and Sietze Norder. (Forthcoming.) The Andean-Amazonian interface: Sociolinguistic relations and areal-typological patterns. In Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes. Matthias Urban, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Upper Rio Negro: Cultural and Linguistic Interaction in Northwestern Amazonia
Kristine Stenzel, Ana María Ospina Bozzi, Thiago C Chacon, Aimee Hosemann, Dany Mahecha Rubio
The Upper Rio Negro region is remarkable not only for its high linguistic and ethnic diversity, but also for the history of multilingualism and cultural interchange that have brought its peoples together. The fourteen chapters of this volume investigate this interaction, drawing on the insights provided by the languages and cultures of the region, and exploring how the Upper Rio Negro profile has been shaped by forces promoting both similarity and difference. The collection draws on the growing dialogue between linguists and anthropologists, and emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to questions that involve both language and culture. Companion volume to Alto Xingu, uma Sociedade Multilíngue (Franchetto, 2011), both available for download on the Museunacional link.
The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics
The Areal Linguistics of Amazonia
Patience Epps
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide
Broad-scale patterns across the languages of the Andes and Amazonia
2020 •
Paul Heggarty
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide
Introduction. Why Andes-Amazonia? Why cross-disciplinary
2020 •
Paul Heggarty, David Beresford-Jones
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Handbook of Amazonian Languages. Vol. 4 (review)
2001 •
Edward J Vajda
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration, edited by A.J. Pearce, D.G. Beresford-Jones and P. Heggarty, pp. 21-34. University College London Press.
Conclusion. The Andes-Amazonia divide: Myth and reality
2020 •
David Beresford-Jones
For most of the past five hundred years, if not longer, the human societies of the Andes and Amazonia have been regarded as displaying fundamental differences. Whether in their subsistence practices, population densities, degree of urbanization, broader social organization or the languages they spoke, the distinct character of the peoples of the two regions has been taken almost as a given. This cultural divide was naturalized as an inevitable outcome of the clear geographical and environmental contrasts between Andes and Amazonia, between temperate highlands and tropical lowlands, walled off from each other by the steep, humid and often impassable slopes of the eastern piedmont. The course of human history and the development of societies on either side of the piedmont, then, were at heart considered to have been determined by environment, and so to have remained essentially immutable over time. But recent revisionism, based on new findings and interpretations of the archaeology of Amazonia, in line with insights from anthropology, have critically revisited these long-standing, engrained assumptions. Indeed, new thinking has sought comprehensively to debunk the notion that there was much real substance to the Andes-Amazonia divide at all. Rather, that divide might be considered little more than a myth: a purely cultural construct, arising from colonial or post-colonial prejudices and preconceptions. It was this debate that stimulated us to convene a conference held in Leipzig in 2014, and subsequently to edit this volume.
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