Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana 1498-1820
- Neil L. Whitehead
- Economics
- 1 December 1990
Living with Bad Surroundings
- Sverker Finnström, Neil L. Whitehead, J. Fair, Leigh A. Payne
- Political Science
- 13 November 2020
Ethnic transformation and historical discontinuity in native Amazonia and Guayana, 1500-1900
- Neil L. Whitehead
- History
- 1993
L'A. analyse les complexites, habituellement negligees, de l'histoire indigene amazonienne. Il montre que, dans les theories anthropologiques courantes, l'excessive focalisation sur les materiaux…
War in the tribal zone : expanding states and indigenous warfare
- R. Ferguson, Neil L. Whitehead
- Political Science
- 23 January 1993
War in the Tribal Zone, the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new Preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence of ethnic conflict and…
Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organization
- Neil L. Whitehead, P. Riviere
- History
- 1986
In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
- Neil L. Whitehead, Robin M. Wright
- Political Science
- 3 June 2004
Introduction: Dark Shamanism / Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright 1 The Order of Dark Shamans among the Warao / Johannes Wilbert 21 Dark Shamans and the Shamanic State: Sorcery and Witchcraft as…
Carib cannibalism. The historical evidence
- Neil L. Whitehead
- History
- 1984
Canibalismo caribe. Evidencia historica. Desde la epoca del descubrimiento, los Espanoles establecieron una distincion entre los Indigenas canibales (Caribes) y los que no compartian esta practica.…
Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death
- Neil L. Whitehead
- Psychology
- 7 October 2002
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Ethnographer's Tale 11 2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers 41 3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants 88 4. Shamanic Warfare 128 5. Modernity, Development, and…
The Indigenous People of the Caribbean
- Neil L. Whitehead
- Political Science
- 1 December 1998
The Indigenous People of the Caribbean. Samuel M. Wilson. ed. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997.254 pp.
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