Rev. versions of papers read in 1984 at a session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [307]-329.

Introduction : myth and history / Jonathan D. Hill -- Cauchu Uras : Lowland and Quichua histories of the Amazon rubber boom / Mary-Elizabeth Reeve -- Righting history in the northwest Amazon : myth, structure, and history in an Arapaco narrative / Janet M. Chernela -- The destroying Christ : an Aymara myth of conquest / Mary Dillon and Thomas Abercrombie -- Time, narrative, and ritual : historical interpretations from an Amazonian society / Jonathan D. Hill and Robin M. Wright -- The Josho Nahuanbo are all wet and undercooked : Shipibo views of the whiteman and the Incas in myth, legend, and history / Peter G. Roe -- Images of resistance in colonial domination / Roger Rasnake -- Cerebral savage : the whiteman as symbol of cleverness and savagery in Waura myth / Emilienne Ireland -- Political memories and colonizing symbols : Santiago and the Peruvian mountain gods of colonial Peru / Irene Silverblatt -- History, myth, and social consciousness among the Kayapó of central Brazil / Terence Turner -- Indian voices : contact experienced and expressed / Alcida Ramos -- Commentary : ethno-ethnohistory : myth and history in native South American representations of contact with Western society / Terence Turner -- Commentary : historical and mythic evocations of Chthonian power in South America / Norman E. Whitten, Jr.