Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family by Jonathan D. Hill,Fernando Santos-Granero

By Jonathan D. Hill,Fernando Santos-Granero

prior to they have been mostly decimated and dispersed via the consequences of eu colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples have been the main frequent language family members in Latin the USA and the Caribbean, and so they have been the 1st humans Columbus encountered within the Americas. Comparative Arawakan Histories, in paperback for the 1st time, examines social constructions, political hierarchies, rituals, non secular pursuits, gender kin, and linguistic diversifications via ancient views to record sociocultural variety around the subtle Arawakan diaspora.

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