Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia -- Part I: Archaeology -- 2. Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in the Pre-colonial Central Amazon -- 3. Deep History, Cultural Identities, and Ethnogenesis in the Southern Amazon -- 4. Deep Time, Big Space -- 5. Generic Pots and Generic Indians -- 6. An Attempt to Understand Panoan Ethnogenesis in Relation to Long-Term Patterns and Transformation sof Regional Interaction in Western Amazonia -- Part II: Linguistics -- 7. Amazonian Ritual Communication in Relation to Multilingual Social Networks -- 8. The Spread of the Arawakan Languages -- 9. Comparative Arawak Linguistics -- 10. Linguistic Diversity Zones and Cartographic Modeling -- 11. Nested Identities in the Southern Guyana-Surinam Corner -- 12. Change, Contact, and Ethnogenesis in Northern Quechua -- Part III: Ethnohistory -- 13. Sacred Landscapes as Environmental Histories in Lowland South America -- 14. Constancy in Continuity? Native Oral History, Iconography, and Earthworks on the Upper Purús River -- 15. Ethnogenesis at the Interface of the Andes and the Amazon -- 16. Ethnogenesis and Interculturality in the "Forest of Canelos" -- 17. Captive Identities, or the Genesis of Subordinate Quasi-Ethnic Collectivities in the American Tropics -- 18. Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.