Beyond highlands and lowlands: Models and typologies in South American ethnology
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https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.89114Keywords:
South american ethnology, ethnological models, cultural areas, Andes, Amazonia, history of anthropologyAbstract
This article tries to question the manner and the conceptual tools by which the modern ethnology managed to establish the division between highlands and lowlands in South America, ethnographical fields recognized as different by nature. This division here is fundamentally seen as an outcome of a specific analytical frame. A change of ethnological model could dissolve frontiers presumed as natural, for example between Andes and Amazonia. In this sense, and from a specific ethnographic case, this paper suggests, at least in a synthetic and preliminary way, an approximation of those two regions. This is only possible taking an opposite theoretical perspective from that other that established the continental great divide.
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