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Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America ed. by Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course (review)

Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America ed. by Suzanne... Book Reviews Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America. Edited by SUZANNE OAKDALE and MAGNUS COURSE. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 319. $75.00 (cloth). Reviewed by Juan Luis Rodriguez, Queens College of the City University of New York This volume takes its title from Kenneth Rexroth’s poem “Lute Music.” This poetic reference sets the tone for a book that delves into an ethnographic exploration of what Rexroth would call the “endless epiphany of our fluent selves.” In Amazonia, two things drive this fluid working and reworking of the person: one is the body, the other is discursive practices. Amazonian personhood is always a work in progress. It requires individuals and societies to build their trajectories from multiplicity to individuality in physical and discursive form. The challenge in this volume is to tackle this process by analyzing biographical and autobiographical narratives. The book’s first section, “Neither Myth nor History,” contains chapters by Casey High, Peter Gow, and Hanne Veber. As the title suggests, what these have in common is a repositioning of biographical and autobiographical narratives vis-à-vis myth. They ex- plore different aspects of this relationship in regard to personhood, identity, and historical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America ed. by Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course (review)

Rodriguez, Juan Luis
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 57 (1) – Mar 2, 2016
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Book Reviews Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America. Edited by SUZANNE OAKDALE and MAGNUS COURSE. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 319. $75.00 (cloth). Reviewed by Juan Luis Rodriguez, Queens College of the City University of New York This volume takes its title from Kenneth Rexroth’s poem “Lute Music.” This poetic reference sets the tone for a book that delves into an ethnographic exploration of what Rexroth would call the “endless epiphany of our fluent selves.” In Amazonia, two things drive this fluid working and reworking of the person: one is the body, the other is discursive practices. Amazonian personhood is always a work in progress. It requires individuals and societies to build their trajectories from multiplicity to individuality in physical and discursive form. The challenge in this volume is to tackle this process by analyzing biographical and autobiographical narratives. The book’s first section, “Neither Myth nor History,” contains chapters by Casey High, Peter Gow, and Hanne Veber. As the title suggests, what these have in common is a repositioning of biographical and autobiographical narratives vis-à-vis myth. They ex- plore different aspects of this relationship in regard to personhood, identity, and historical

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