Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS): Recent submissions
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The hearer, the hunter and the agouti head : aspects of intercommunication and conviviality among the Pa'ikwené (Palikur) of French Guiana
(1998) - ThesisThe thesis is in the broadest terms an anthropological exploration of intercommunication; it concerns concepts and practices of speech and hearing among a Lowland Amazonian people, the Pa'ikwene, concentrating particularly ... -
Quechua religious terms in the departments of Apurimac and San Martin, Peru
(1976) - ThesisMy thesis "Quechua Religious Terms in the Departments of Apurimac and San Martin, Peru" deals with the problem of changing meaning-loads of Quechua religious terms. I chose the departments (counties) of Apurimac and San ... -
Evangelization in the writings of Latin American liberation theologians
(1988) - ThesisThis dissertation investigates evangelization in the writings of ten Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians who were chosen due to their interaction with the major themes of Liberation Theology and their interest in ... -
The biblical concept of conversion and its social implications from a Latin American perspective
(1991) - ThesisThis work presents a concept of conversion using the researches of Liberation theologians and the relation of Jesus to four groups in the Synoptics. In chapter one, the main concern is the hermeneutical problem as ... -
Fertile words : aspects of language and sociality among Yanomami people of Venezuela
(2004) - ThesisIn the first part of the thesis (Chapters I to 7)1 discuss two Yanomami myths of origin, namely the myth of the origin of the night, and the myth of the master of banana plants. While drawing heavily on Lizot's ethnographical ...