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Aasenîkon! Makushi travelogues from the borderlands of Southern Guyana
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dc.contributor.advisor | Overing, Joanna | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Harris, Mark | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Wardle, Huon | |
dc.contributor.author | Grund, Lisa Katharina | |
dc.coverage.spatial | 254 p. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-24T11:30:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-24T11:30:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-12-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/12167 | |
dc.description.abstract | This ethnographic account focuses on the conceptions and practices of movement, as narrated by the Makushi people who live along the triple frontier of southern Guyana. The journeys - individual experiences, in particular of women – depict visits to other Makushi communities, to their neighbours and cities in Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. The travelogues disclose Makushi premises on knowledge and its acquisition: gender, age, temporality and alterity. Exploring these concepts in practice, the ethnography points out the value the Makushi attribute to their encounters with others, situations in which risk and unpredictability are creatively incorporated as part of their sociality. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | "The support from the Max-Planck Institute in Nijmegen and the Volkswagen Stiftung, as well as the Centre for Amerindian Studies [three-year] bursary at the University of St Andrews, made the present research possible financially." -- from the Acknowledgements pages | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Amazonia | en_US |
dc.subject | Guyana | en_US |
dc.subject | Amerindian | en_US |
dc.subject | Makushi | en_US |
dc.subject | Movement | en_US |
dc.subject | Travelogues | en_US |
dc.subject | Mobility | en_US |
dc.subject | Travel | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | F2380.1M3G8 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Guyana--Description and travel | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Macusi Indians | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Travel writing--Guyana | en |
dc.title | Aasenîkon! Makushi travelogues from the borderlands of Southern Guyana | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Russell Trust | en_US |
dc.contributor.sponsor | University of St Andrews. Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) | en_US |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands) | en_US |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Volkswagenstiftung | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | The University of St Andrews | en_US |
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