Europe and the people without history

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Notes

2 Whereas the Amazonian subjects of Meggers (the Kayapo, among whom I have worked) and Chagnon (the Yanomami) are treated as if they are in a sort of timeless vacuum, they in fact had quite a bit of history to reveal.

3 I say ‘controversially’ in the sense that he was very careful about positioning the locus of rebellion, which was not necessarily in the semi-proletariat but rather in middle peasantries in many cases.