Eduardo Góes Neves
Appearance
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Eduardo Góes Neves is professor of archaeology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is known for his work directing the Central Amazon Project from 1995 to 2010.
Career
[edit]Neves received his PhD from Indiana University in 1997.[1]
In 2005, his colleague, American archaeologist James Petersen, died after he was shot when the pair were robbed at a restaurant in the Brazilian Amazon.[2]
He was Capes visiting professor for 2016-17 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He was president of the Brazilian Archaeological Society.[3]
He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the archaeology journal Antiquity.[4]
Selected publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Arqueologia da Amazônia. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2006
- Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil. British Museum Press, London, 2001. (Joint editor) ISBN 978-0714125589
Articles and chapters
[edit]- "Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in Precolonial Central Amazon", in Alf Hornborg; Jonathan Hill. (Ed.). Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2010.
- "Warfare in Pre-Colonial Amazonia: When Carneiro Meets Clastres", in Axel Nilsen; William Walker. (Eds.). Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice Theory and the Archaeology of Violence. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.
- "Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-Term History and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain" in Helaine Silvermann; William Isbell. (Eds.) Handbook of South American Archaeology. New York: Springer, 2008
- "The Relevance of Curt Nimuendajú's Archaeological Work", in Per Stenbrog; Stig Rydén. (Eds.) In Pursuit of a Past Amazon. Götebrog, Sweden: Museum of World Culture, 2004, v. 45, pp. 2–8.
- "O Velho e o Novo na Arqueologia Amazônica". Revista USP, Brasil, v. 44, pp. 87–113, 1999.
- "Twenty Years of Amazonian Archaeology in Brazil" in Antiquity , Vol. 72, pp. 625–632, 1998.
- "Village Fissioning in Amazonia: A Critique of Monocausal Determinism", Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo, 1995, n. 5.
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo Góes Neves. Research Supported by FAPESP. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ Black Gold of the Amazon. Michael Tennesen, Discover, 30 April 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ Eduardo Goes Neves. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ "Editorial Advisory Board". Antiquity. Retrieved 2023-08-14.