Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica

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Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica is written by Ernst Halbmayer and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000023095 (ISBN 10) and 9781000023091 (ISBN 13).

This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region’s indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo・Colombian Area.