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View article: The Origin Myth of a MythThe “Land Without Evil” Revisited1
The Origin Myth of a MythThe “Land Without Evil” Revisited1 Open
The Apapocúva-Guarani legend of the Land Without Evil burst into Americanist literature in 1914, in a text published by German anthropologist Curt U. Nimuendajú. This text suggests a significant connection between a particular belief conte…
View article: Amazonia by steam
Amazonia by steam Open
In the 1890s, at the height of the rubber boom, steamboats dominate the rivers of Bolivian Amazonia. The technophile discourse of the period presents the steamer as a revolution that changes everything: it allows social progress and econom…
View article: Anthropology of the South American Lowlands
Anthropology of the South American Lowlands Open
Since the first contacts, the ’lowlands’ of South America have been defined in a residual way, as the term referred to all the regions that do not belong to the Andes : the immense Amazon, the Chaco, Patagonia and the Atlantic coast. In fa…