Explores the legacy of Peter Riviere, the retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. The contributors demonstrate their conviction that the impact of Amazonian ethnology is comparable to that of African ethnology in the 1950s.

Focusing on the anthropological development of Amazonia, this volume explores the legacy of Peter Riviere, a recently retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. An international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics that include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking.

Whitehead does a superb job at showing the complex relationships among history, coloniality, border-transformation, culture, and local knowledge.