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//Ainbo, Koshi Shinaya// (with Agustina Valera Rojas) (2005) //Koshi Shinanya Ainbo: El Testimonio de una mujer shipiba//. (Lima: Fondo Editorial Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Alès, Catherine (1998) "Pourquoi les Yanowamï ont-ils des filles?", in M. Godelier & M. Panoff (dir.), La Production du Corps, Amsterdam, Editions des Archives Contemporaines, Overseas Publishers Association : 281-315. (reprinted in Anthropologie du corps, 2009)

Alès, Catherine (2001) "L'Aigle et le chien sylvestre. La distinction de sexe dans les rites et la parenté yanomami", in C. Alès & C. Barraud (dir.), Sexe relatif ou sexe absolu? La distinction de sexe dans les sociétés, Paris, Editions de la MSH : 157-200.

Alès, Catherine (2003) « Función Simbólica y Organización Social. Dircursos Rituales y Política entre los Yanomami », in C. Alès & J. Chiappino (dir.), Caminos Cruzados. Ensayos en Antropología Social, Etnoecología y Etnoeducación, Mérida, IRD Editions/ULA-GRIAL : 197-240.

Alès, Catherine (2006) Yanomami, l'ire et le désir, Paris, Editions Karthala. (see chapters 3, 4,5, 7 and 9).

Balée, William (2004) Forward to Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Women of the Forest, by Yolanda and Robert Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Bant, Astrid (1994) Parentesco, matrimonio e intereses de genero en una sociedad amazonica: el caso aguaruna. Amazonia Peruana Mujer Amazonica. 12(24)77-103

Belaunde Olschewski Luisa Elvira (1992), Gender, Commensality and Community among the Airo-Pai of West Amazonia (Secoya, Western-Tukanoan Speaking), Ph.D. thesis, London University.

Belaunde Olschewski Luisa Elvira (1994), Parrots and oropendolas: the aesthetics of gender relations among the Airo-Pai of the Peruvian Amazon, Journal de la Société des Américanistes 80:95-111.

Belaunde Olschewski Luisa Elvira (2001) Viviendo bien. Género y fertilidad entre los Airo Pai de la Amazonia Peruana, Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Apelicación Práctica (CAAAP) y Banco Central de Reserva del Perú – Fondo Editorial, Lima.

BELAUNDE OLSCHEWSKI Luisa E., 2005, El recuerdo de Luna : género, sangre y memoria entre los pueblos amazónicos, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima.

Bellier Irene (1993) “Réflections sur la question du genre dans les sociétés amazoniennes”, L’Homme XXXIII (126-128): 517-26.

Bianchi C. (1980) Hombre y mujer en la sociedad shuar, Mundo Shuar, Sucua.

Bonilla Camino Martha (2002) Machonas y Mandarinas – Construcción de identidades de género en la amazonía ecuatoriana, ABYA YALA, Quito.

Briggs, Charles L. 1993. Personal Sentiments and Polyphonic Voices in Warao Women's Ritual Wailing: Music and Poetics in a Critical and Collective Discourse. American Anthropologist 95(4):929-957. Brown Michael F. (1986) “Power, Gender and Social Meaning of Aguaruna Suicide”, MAN Vol.21 N. 2 (Jun. 1986)

Burkhalter, S. Brian (1988) Sexual Antagonism and Play in Mundurucu Society: The Fun is in the Chase. In Dialectics and Gender: Anthropological Approaches, eds. R. Randolph, D. Schneider, and M. Diaz. Westview Press.

Chernela, Janet. (1986) Os cultivares de mandioca na area do Uaupes (Tukano). In Suma Ethnológica Brasileira, ed. Berta G. Ribeiro, pp. 151-158. Vol 1. Petrópolis: Vozes, FINEP.

Chernela, Janet (1997) "Ideal Speech Moments: A Woman's Narrative Performance in the Northwest Amazon," Feminist Studies 23(1)73-96

Chernela, Janet (2003) "Language Ideology and Women’s Speech: Talking Community in the Northwest Amazon." American Anthropologist 105(4)794-806

Chernela, Janet (2004) “The Politics of Language Acquisition: Language Learning as Social Modeling in the Northwest Amazon,” Women and Language 27(1)13-20.

Chernela, Janet (2004) "Co-authoring Culture." Forward to Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Women of the Forest, by Yolanda and Robert Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp xx-xxix.

Chernela, Janet (2003) "Eastern Tukanoan Society." In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Carol and Melvin Ember (eds.). Human Relations Area File. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Córdoba, Lorena (2008) Parentesco en femenino: género, alianza y organización social entre los chacobo de la Amazonía boliviana. PhD Thesis, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Córdoba, Lorena (2006) “Idéologie, symbolisme et rapports entre sexes dans la construction de la personne chacobo”, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 36 (1): 59-68.

Crocker, William H. and Jean Crocker (2004). The Canela: Kinship, Ritual, and Sex in an Amazonian Tribe. 2nd edition. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. George Spindler, series editor. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth

Crocker, William H. The Canela, In, Ember, Carol R. and Melvin Ember, eds. 2004. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures. (Human Relations Area Files at Yale University.) New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.

Dávila, A.G. 2006. Relaciones de Género en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana: Estudios de caso en comunidades indígenas Achuar, Ahuar y Kichua. Quito: Abya Yala.

Descola, Philippe (1996) The Genres of Gender: Local Models and Global Paradigms in the Comparison of Amazonia and Melanesia. in T Gregor and D. Tuzin eds. Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia; an Exploration of the Comparative Method. University of California Press.

Ferguson, R. Brian (2004) Forward to Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Women of the Forest, by Yolanda and Robert Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ferguson, R. Brian (1988) War and the Sexes in Amazonia. In dialectics and Gender. Anthropological Approaches, eds. R. Randolph, D. Schneider, and M. Diaz. Westview Press.

Fisher, William H. 2004. Kayapo, in Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Ember, Carol R. and Melvin Ember (eds), New York: Kluwer Academic, pp. 561-571.

Fisher, William H. 2001. Age-Based Genders among the Kayapo, In Gregor, Thomas and Donald Tuzin (eds) Gender In Amazonia and Melanesia: an Exploration of the Comparative Method. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 115-140.

GALLI Elisa, 2008, Migrare in città, migrare tra gli spiriti: genere ed esperienze oniriche tra i Runa amazzonici dell’Ecuador, unpublished Ph.D dissertation, Università degli Studi di Siena.

GALLI Elisa, 2009, “Genere, violenza ed alcool tra i Runa amazzonici”, in Bollettin P. e U. Mondini, Ricerca sul campo in Amazzonia. 2008: resoconti di studio, Bulzoni editore, Roma.

GOW Peter, 1991, Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia, Oxford, Cladredon Press. (chapter 4 “Husband and Wife”)

Gregor, Thomas (1980) The Mehinaku: The Dream of Daily Life in a Brazilian Village. University of Chicago Press.

Gregor, Thomas (1987) Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazon People. University of Chicago Press.

Gregor, Thomas (2004) Forward to Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Women of the Forest, by Yolanda and Robert Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Gregor, Thomas and DF Tuzin (2001) Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An exploration of the Comparative Method. University of California Press.

GUZMÁN GALLEGOS María A., 1997, Para que la yuca beba nuestra sangre, Trabajo de género en una comunidad quichua de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, Ediciones Abya Yala, Quito.

Heckler, S. (2004) Tedium and Creativity: the valorization of manioc cultivation and Piaroa women JRAI 10(2): 241-259.

Heise, Maria Landeo, Liliam Bant (1999) Relationes de género en la Amazonía peruana. Lima: Centro amazónico de antropología y aplicación práctica. CAAAP

Herzog-Schröder, Gabriele (2000) Okoyõma – Die Krebsjägerinnen. Vom Leben der Yanomami-Frauen in Südvenezuela. LIT.

Hill, Jonathan (2002) Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Woman: Fertility Cultism and Historical Dynamics in the Northwest Amazon. Ch. 9 in Hill & Santos-Granero, Comparative Arawakan Histories.

Hugh-Jones, Christine (1979) From the Milk River. Cambridge U.K. Cambridge University Press.

Hugh-Jones, Stephen (2001) - 'The gender of some Amazonian gifts; an experiment with an experiment” in T Gregor and D. Tuzin eds. Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia; an Exploration of the Comparative Method. University of California Press.

Jackson, Jean (1988) Gender Relations in the Central Northwest Amazon. Antropológica 70: 17-38

Jackson, Jean (1996) “Coping with the Dilemmas of Affinity and Female Sexuality: Male Rebirth in the Central Northwest Amazon,” in Warren Shapiro and Uli Linke, eds., Denying Biology: Essays on Pseudo-Procreation. Lanham, MD: University Press of America: 89-128.

Johnson, Orna (2004) Forward to Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Women of the Forest, by Yolanda and Robert Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kensinger, Kenneth (1984) Sexual Ideologies in Lowland South America. Working Papers on South American Indians, no. 5.

Kensinger, Kenneth How Real People Ought to Live. Waveland Press.

Kracke, Waud (1995) "The Construction of Woman in Parintintin Imaginative Life." Savoir 2 (1-2). Quebec: GIFRIC

Lasmar, Cristiane (2005) De volta ao Lago de Leite: Genero e transformacao no Alto Rio Negro. Editora UNESP.

Lea, Vanessa (1999) Desnaturalizando Genero na Sociedade Mebengokre. Revista Estudos Feministas 7 (1-2) 176-194.

Lea, Vanessa. 2004. M?bengokre Ritual Wailing and Flagellation: A Performative Outlet for Emotional Self-Expression. INDIANA(21):113-125.

Londono Sulkin, Carlos (1989) Styles of Manhood: An Amazonian Contrast in Tranquillity and Violence. Societies at Peace: Anthropological Perspectives, Londres.

Lorrain, C. (2000) Cosmic reproduction, economics and politics among the Kulina of Southwest Amazonia The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 6(2) 293-310.

Lorrain Claire, 2001, The Hierarchy Bias and the Equality Bias: Epistemological Considerations on the Analisias of Gender, in Rival L. and Whitehead N., Beyond the Visible and the material, The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 263-272.

McCallum, Cecilia (2001) Gender and Sociality in Amazonia: How Real People are Made. Berg.

McCallum, Cecilia (1994) Ritual and the Origin of Sexuality in the Alto Xingu. Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. Eds, Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow. London: Routledge.

Mindlin, Betty (1985) Nos Paiter. Os Surui de Rondonia (Petropolis: Editora Vozes)

Mindlin, Betty (1998) Moqueca de Maridos: Mitos eroticos (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Rosa de Tempos)

Muratorio, Blanca (1998) Indigenous Women's Identities and the Politics of Cultural Reproduction in the Ecuadorian Amazon. American Anthropologist 100 (2) 409-420

MURATORIO Blanca, 1995, Amazonian Windows to the Past: Recovering Women’s Histories of the Ecuadorian Amazon, in Rayna RAPP y Jane SHNEIDER (editors), Articulation hidden histories: Exploring the Influence of Eric R. Wolf, University of California Press, Berkeley: pp. 322-335.

MURATORIO Blanca, 2000a, Historia de una mujer amazónica: intersección de autobiografía, etnografía, e historia, “Cuadernos de Historia Latinoamericana”, n.8, 2000, pp. 203-225.

MURATORIO Blanca, 2000b, Identidades de mujeres indígenas y política de reproducción cultural en la Amazonía ecuatoriana, in Andrés GUERRERO (editor), Etnicidades, FLACSO, Quito, pp. 235-266.

Murphy, Yolanda, (1972) The Mundurucú Women of the Village of Cabruá. Thesis. Master of Arts. Columbia Univesity.

Murphy, Yolanda, and Robert Murphy (1974) Women of the Forest. New York: Columbia University Press.

Nieto, Juana Valentina (2006) Mujeres de la Abundancia. Tesis de Maestría en Estudios Amazónicos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia, Leticia.

Overing, Joanna (1986) 'Men Control Women? The "Catch 22" in the Analysis of gender'. /International Journal of Moral and Social Studies, 1, 2:135-56.

Perrin, Michel and Marie Perruchon (eds.). 1997. Complementariedad entre hombre y mujer: Relaciones de género desde la perspective amerindia. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala.

Pollock, Donald (1998) “Food and Gender among the Kulina” in Carole Counihan and Steven Kaplan (eds) Food and Gender: Identity and Power. Gordon & Breach. pp. 11-28. 1998.

Pollock, Donald (1992) “Culina Shamanism: Gender, Power and Knowledge” in E. Jean Langdon and Gerhard Baer (eds) Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America University of New Mexico Press. pp. 25-40.

Perruchon, M. 2003. I am Tsunki: Gender and Shamanism among the Shuar of Western Amazonia. PhD dissertation. Uppsala University

Prinz, Ulrike (1999) “Das Jacaré und die streitbaren Weiber” Poesie und Geschlechterkampf im östlichen Tiefland Südamerikas. CURUPIRA.

Randolph, R. Schneider, D. and Diaz M., (1988) Dialectics and Gender: Anthropologic Approaches. Westview Press.

Riviére, Peter (1987) Of Women, Men and Manioc in H. O. Skar and F. Salomon (eds.), Natives and Neighbours in South America. Gothenburg, Sweden: Gothenburg Museum Publications.

Rubenstein, Steve (2004) Fieldwork and the Erotic Economy on the Colonial Frontier. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29 (4)

Passes, Alan (2004) The Place of Politics: Powerful Speech and Women Speakers in Everyday Pa'ikwene (Palikur) Life. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10.

Pereira dos Santos, Nelson, director (1971) Como era gostoso o meu francés (“How Tasty Was My Frenchman”). Film.

Peluso (2003) Ese Eja epona: woman's social power in multiple and hybrid worlds. PhD dissertaion. Columbia University.

Picchi, Debra (2003) Brazilian Indigenous Gender Constructs in a Modern Context. History and Anthropology 14(1)23-39

Pollock, Donald “Food and Gender among the Kulina” in Carole Counihan and Steven Kaplan (eds) Food and Gender: Identity and Power. Gordon & Breach. pp. 11-28. 1998.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. Yurupari-Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth. Harvard University Press.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. Biological and Social Aspects of the Yurupary Complex of the Colombian Vaupes, Journal of Latin American Lore, 15, pp. 95-135.

Shapiro, Judith (2004) Forward to Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Women of the Forest, by Yolanda and Robert Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Siskind, Janet (1975) To Hunt in the Morning. Galaxy Books.

Steverlynck, Astrid M. 2003 Encounters with Amazons: Myth, Gender and Society in Lowland South America. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oxford.

Taylor, Anne Christine (2001) Wives, Pets, and Affines: Marriage among the Jivaro, in Rival L. and Whitehead N., Beyond the Visible and the material, The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 45-56.

Tedlock, Barbara (2005) The Woman in tha Shaman’s Body, Reclaming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine, Bantan Books, New York.

Tiffany, Sharon W. and Kathleen J. Adams (1985) The Wild Woman: An Inquiry into the Anthropology of an Idea. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co.

Valenzuela Bismarck Pilar y Agustina Valera Rojas (2005) //Koshi Shinanya Ainbo: El Testimonio de una Mujer Shipiba.//
Lima: Fondo Editorial Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

Vidal, Silvia (2002) Secret Religious Cults and Political Leadership. Ch. 10 in Hill & Santos-Granero, Comparative Arawakan Histories.

Urban, Greg.1988. Ritual Wailing in Amerindian Brazil. American Anthropologist 90(2):385-400.