Peter G. Roe

Style, Society, Myth, and Structure

This paper inventories and illustrates the great range of cultural factors that constrain aesthetic and technical styles. It also offers some comments on the nature of style itself. The paper is organized broadly into three parts: (1) a definition of style and a discussion of its hierarchical nature; (2) a listing of the multiple social and technological variables that condition stylistic output; and (3) an analysis of the ideational factors that articulate style with self and society on the mythic and structural levels.

Shipibo archaeo‐ethnography: Site formation processes and archaeological interpretation

Abstract The structures of two Shipibo house compounds are considered. One described by DeBoer and Lathrap (1979) represents the on‐going ethnographic context. The other was recently abandoned and therefore represents the archaeological record. A k‐means cluster analysis program is used to investigate the spatial structures of both the ethnographic and archaeological contexts. In doing so, the systemic context becomes a model against which the archaeological setting may be compared. We find that there is a variety of spatial relationships between use and discard locations manifested by a single cultural group, the precise nature of which is constrained by the range of activities conducted by the occupants of the group. Based upon this analysis we suggest that the correspondence between use and discard areas should not only be examined in terms of occupational intensity or enclosed vs. open‐air activities, but should also include a consideration of the variability in the settlement activity organization. T...

Process in South Amerindian oral narratives

Johannes Wilbert, ed. Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians: Martin Gusindes Collection of Yamana Narratives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xi + 308 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, indexes, glossary, and bibliography.

The cosmic zygote : cosmology in the Amazon Basin

12.95. Johannes Wilbert, ed. (with Karin Simoneau). Folk Literature of the Ge Indians, Volume I. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1978. xxi + 653 pp. Tables, map, indexes, glossary, and bibliography.

Art and Residence Among the Shipibo Indians of Peru: A Study in Microacculturation

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