Fluent selves [electronic resource] : autobiography, person, and history in lowland South America / edited by Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Like the Ancient Ones" : The Intercultural Dynamics of Personal Biography in Amazonian Ecuador / Casey High -- "This Happened to Me" : Exemplary Personal Experience Narratives among the Piro (Yine) People of Peruvian Amazonia / Peter Gow -- Memories of the Ucayali : The Asháninka Story Line / Hanne Veber -- Multiple Biographies : Shamanism and Personhood among the Marubo of Western Amazonia / Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino -- The End of Me : The Role of Destiny in Mapuche Narratives of the Person / Magnus Course -- Relieving Apprehension and Limiting Risk : The Rituals of Extraordinary Communicative Contacts / Ellen B. Basso -- The Lascivious Life of Gabriel Gentil / Oscar Calavia Sáez -- An Indigenous Capitão's Reflections on a Mid-Twentieth-Century Brazilian "Middle Ground" / Suzanne Oakdale -- Fluid Subjectivity : Reflections on Self and Alternative Futures in the Autobiographical Narrative of Hiparidi Top'tiro, a Xavante Transcultural Leader / Laura R. Graham -- Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto.

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