A transforming landscape of journeys
Full title:
A transforming landscape of journeys: An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction of Southwestern Amazonia in the Nineteenth Century
Duration: Launched 25 September 2006; duration 9 months
Principle Investigator:
Professor P G Gow
Higher Education Institution:
University of St Andrews
Contact information: Tel:
++44 (0)1334-462817
or email:
e-mail: pgg2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Aims and Objectives
The project is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of the nineteenth century regional landscape constituted by the meaning of collective long distance trading expeditions carried out by the Piro people over a vast region of Southwestern Amazonia (in what is now Peru and Brazil). These journeys ceased by 1912. The project looks at archival sources describing these journeys through the lens provided by phenomenological account (an ethnographic theory) of the meanings of settlement and movement based on late twentieth century Piro ethnographic data.
For more details please go to the project summary document 
