‘One Piro man I knew well’: A brief commentary on An Amazonian Myth and its History
This is a book review for An Amazonian myth and History, to the special volume to honor Peter Gow
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Review: Of Mixed Blood
The review revises the most inportant concepts of the book Of Mixed Blood
Interviewing Peter Gow — Dundee, June 24, 2017
This interview presents an initial dialogue about Peter Gow’s trajectory as an anthropologist, trying to bring to light particularly the fieldwork experiences and events thatithad notbeen possible to commenton and explore in the published material….
Desire, difference, and productivity: reflections on “The perverse child” and its continued relevance
This article is concerned with the relationships through which children have been born, raised, and made into Amahuaca people over the past 75 years, and within contemporary Native Communities on the Inuya River since their formation beginning in t…
Indigenous transformations in the comunidad nativa: rethinking kinship and its limitations in an expanding resource frontier
In Of Mixed Blood, Peter Gow sets out an account of the transformations of kinship and the construction of social relations among Indigenous, mainly Yine (Piro), people of the Bajo Urubamba valley in the early 1980s, when Peru’s “Comunidades Nativa…
Between Cocama and Modernity in the Ucamara (Peruvian Amazon)
Combining a contemporary ethnographic perspective with a review of historical records, the article extends Peter Gow’s re-reading of the ex-Cocama phenomenon in the Western Amazon. It argues that the foundation of the Amazonian Peruvian town of Req…
Rituals (and Myths) transformations in the Gran Chaco
Based on the inspiration Peter Gow takes from Lévi-Strauss’ canonical formula or double twist and his concept of ensemble, this article aims to illustrate by analogy how the rituals of female initiation, such as the Yammana of the Enlhet-Enenlhet, …
Las nociones o’dam de cuerpo y persona. Diálogo interrumpido entre el norte de México y la Amazonía peruana
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar acerca de las nociones de cuerpo y persona del pueblo o’dam del norte de México, partiendo de los principios que Peter Gow y otros autores han observado para las poblaciones nativas de la región …
Marginal to Whom? Reflections on Gow’s Purús Song
This paper constitutes a personal exploration of the impact of the work of Peter Gow on my own attempts to think through specific ethnographic problems, both in the Mapuche communities of Southern Chile and the Gaelic communities of Western Scotlan…
Civilized Elders and Isolated Ancestors: The Multiple Histories of Contemporary Amazonia
In this article I consider the impact of Peter Gow’s writing on indigenous histories as a key area of research on Amazonia. Building on his study of kinship as history on the Bajo Urubamba (1991) he presented a regional perspective on the dynamic s…
“Too many meanings”: reading “Piro designs”
This paper explores the notion of painting as meaningful action (Gow 1999) and highlights the productivity of the idea as emerged from, and dovetailing, different strands of thought on the nature of symbols and actions. Bringing together Lévi-Strau…
“Helpless”: reflections on grief and sociality in three Amerindian societies
In this article, we reflect on one of Peter Gow’s key pieces of work, “Helpless,” tracing how his scholarship has informed and influenced our own work, from our experiences in the field to our approaches to analysis. We explore some of the main the…
An Amazonianist and his history
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
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The editorial team of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnosemiotics (CAES) accepts articles for publication in CAES Vol. 9, No. 3, which is going to be published in the middle of September 2023. The deadline for submission of materials is A…
Review of Applying Anthropology to General Education: Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century. Jennifer R. Weis and Hillary J. Haldane, eds.
Review of Applying Anthropology to General Education: Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century. Jennifer R. Weis and Hillary J. Haldane, eds.
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Think pieces The etymology of the hydronym Okhta Alexander Akulov Okhta [ohta] is a river in the southern part of the Karelian Isthmus. This hydronym is generally supposed to have originated from Uralic languages, however, really it has no trustworthy Uralic etymology. The hydronym can be explained through the language of the people who lived […]
Common Grounds: Life and Ethnography on the Möbius Strip
This snapshot is a reflection on the nature of mobile ethnographic research where the ethnographer herself is a (hyper)mobile subject, with multiple, at times conflicted, belongings. It explores the role of wavering intimacies in establishing new relat…
“[She] was very eager for men and hated living alone”: Supernatural Women who Pose a Threat to Men in Icelandic Legends
This article examines the ways in which various supernatural women who pose threats to men are presented in the Icelandic folk legend collections from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on narratives dealing with both female …
“[She] was very eager for men and hated living alone”: Supernatural Women who Pose a Threat to Men in Icelandic Legends
This article examines the ways in which various supernatural women who pose threats to men are presented in the Icelandic folk legend collections from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on narratives dealing with both female …
Sustainability as a Symbolic Resource at the Local Level, and Its Strategic Uses: A Study in Northern Italy
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The Political as the Personal: Postmemory among Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden
This article analyses interviews with descendants of Polish migrants in Sweden using the lens of postmemory. The aim is to show how they narrated growing up with parents and grandparents who recalled traumatic experiences of the occupation of Poland du…
Sustainability as a Symbolic Resource at the Local Level, and Its Strategic Uses: A Study in Northern Italy
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Negotiating Tradition Archives in a Community Setting: Sounds of Silence and the Question of Credibility
Following the digitization of archival records of ethnographic work conducted among Yemeni Jews in the early 1970s, we presented these findings to the same community at the same location, fifty years later. In this renegotiation, our interlocutors radi…
How to Write Things: Fiction, Anthropology and Foreignness in Berlin
Why can the anthropologist be a writer but not an author? This essay reflects on the possibility of conveying anthropological knowledge through creative writing while reconsidering ethnographical authorship and its audience. The research material is a …
Common Grounds: Life and Ethnography on the Möbius Strip
This snapshot is a reflection on the nature of mobile ethnographic research where the ethnographer herself is a (hyper)mobile subject, with multiple, at times conflicted, belongings. It explores the role of wavering intimacies in establishing new relat…