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MASCARADING THE VOICE: Texts of the Self in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon by Chernela, Janet

“…In constructing "texts of the self" in spontaneous song, Wanano women draw on rhetorical and grammatical devices to distance and deflect themselves from the…”
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Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil by Chernela, Janet, Zanotti, Laura

“…Despite widespread recognition of the importance of community-conservation partnerships, problems continue to emerge. In this paper we examine one such…”
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Directions of Existence: Indigenous Women Domestics in the Paris of the Tropics1 by Chernela, Janet M.

“…Resumen Enquanto a maior parte da literatura sobre populações indígenas enfatiza o apego aos lugares, tomando qualquer movimento fora dos territórios…”
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The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality by Chernela, Janet

“…Claims made by linguist Daniel Everett, that the Pirahã language, spoken by a small group of native Amazonians, lacks features thought to be universally…”
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The Second World of Wanano Women: Truth, Lies, And Back-Talk in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon by Chernela, Janet M.

“…Speakers of Wanano, an Eastern Tukanoan language, strategically combine the rhetorical dialogic device of reported speech, one type of "voicing," with choice…”
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The Politics of Mediation: Local-Global Interactions in the Central Amazon of Brazil by Chernela, Janet

“…The proliferation of a nongovernmental sector held the promise of linking local actors with national and international ones, thereby contributing to a highly…”
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Barriers Natural and Unnatural: Islamiento as a Central Metaphor in Kuna Ecotourism by CHERNELA, JANET M.

“…This article considers ecotourism among the Kuna of the San Blas Archipelago in Panama, using the term I use the concept of islamiento to describe both…”
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Two anthropologists recall Dominique Buchillet by Chernela, Janet, Diakara Dessano Dihpotiro, Jaime

“…Dominique Buchillet (Janet Chernela) Dominique Buchillet, the anthropologist who pioneered medical anthropology in the Upper Rio Negro of Brazil, passed away…”
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The Work and Influence of Robert L. Carneiro, Cultural Evolutionist and Pioneer in Amazonian Anthropology by Chernela, Janet

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Language in an ontological register: Embodied speech in the Northwest Amazon of Colombia and Brazil by Chernela, Janet

“…Speakers of Eastern Tukanoan languages in Brazil and Colombia construe linguistic differences as indices of group identity, intrinsic to a complex ontology in…”
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Language Ideology and Women's Speech: Talking Community in the Northwest Amazon by Chernela, Janet M.

“…Taking the Northwest Amazon of Brazil as its example, this article argues for the analytic concept of a "speech culture," combining, but heuristically…”
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An End to Difference: Imagining Amazonian Modernity at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Chernela, Janet, Pereira, Ester

“…This article considers a set of postcards purchased in the Amazonian city of Manaus between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The cards upend…”
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Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon by Robin M. Wright. (review) by Chernela, Janet

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Directions of Existence: Indigenous Women Domestics in the Paris of the Tropics by Chernela, Janet M.

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Mascarading the Voice: Texts of the Self in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon by Chernela, Janet

“…In constructing "texts of the self" in spontaneous song, Wanano women draw on rhetorical and grammatical devices to distance and deflect themselves from the…”
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Vibrant: A Review by Chernela, Janet

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FIRE AND ICE: TALKING ABOUT CARBON IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON by Chernela, Janet

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Mascarading the Voice by Chernela, Janet

“…In constructing “texts of the self” in spontaneous song, Wanano women draw on rhetorical and grammatical devices to distance and deflect themselves from the…”
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MASCARADING THE VOICE: Texts of the Self in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon: The Ordeals of Language: Essays in Honor of Ellen B. Basso by CHERNELA, Janet

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Death, Memory, and Language: New Approaches to History in Lowland South American Anthropology by Chernela, Janet M.

“…Chernela reviews "The Last Cannibals: A South American Oral History" by Ellen B. Basso, "From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian…”
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