George Mentore

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2007: Guyanese Amerindian epistemology: the gift of knowledge from a pacifist insurgence. in Race and Class, 49:2.

2007 Spiritual Translucency and Pornocratic Anthropology in Anthropology and Humanism Vol. 32, Issue 2, pp 192-201.

2006: The Triumph and Sorrow of Beauty: Comparing the Recursive, Contrapuntal, and Cellular Aesthetics of Being in TIPITÍ: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, Vol.4; No.1&2.

2006: Amerindian Modes of Knowledge co-edited with Fernando Santos-Granero in TIPITÍ: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, Vol.4; No.1&2.

2006: O triunfo e a dor da beleza: coparando as estéticas recursive, contrapontística e cellular do ser in a Special Issue in honor of Professor Joanna Overing: In the World and About the World Amerindian Modes of Knowledge eds., George Mentore and Fernando Santos-Granero. Revista de Antropologia Vol 49. No 1.

2005 Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being. University of Nebraska Press

2004 The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath" in Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia eds., Neil Whitehead and Robin Wright. Durham: Duke University Press.

2003 Passionate Speech and Literate Talk in Grenada in Language and Social Identity ed., Richard K. Blot. Connecticut: Praeger.

2002 Georgetown: Guyana in Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures Around the World eds., Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (Vol. 2) 234-242. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier.

2000 Society, Body, and Style: An Archery Contest in an Amerindian Society in Games, Sports and Cultures ed., Noel Dyck. Oxford, Berg Press.

1999 Anger in the Forest, Death by Documentation: Cultural Imaginings of the Taruma in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Vol. XXX, No. 3, 261-287.

1999 Notting Hill in Carnival in Visual Anthropology Review 15:3.

1999 Review article for From Oral to Literate Culture: Colonial Experience in the English West Indies by Peter A. Roberts in New West Indian Guide 73 (1&2) 175-177.

1995 Epilepsy as Social Power, Silent Pain, and Episodic Memory Archaeology and Anthropology 10, 58-60.

1995 Peccary Meat and Power Among the Waiwai Indians of Guyana Archaeology and Anthropology 10, 19-35.

1993 Tempering the Social Self: Body Adornment, Vital Substance, and Knowledge Among the Waiwai. Archaeology and Anthropology 9, 22-34.

1993 Alienating Emotion: Literacy and Creolese in Grenada. Ethnic Groups.

1988 The Relevance of Myth: An Amerindian Case. The Edgar Mittelholzer Lecture Series. Georgetown: Georgetown Printers.

1987 Waiwai Women: The Basis of Wealth and Power. Man (N.S.) 22, 511-527.

1983-84 Waiwai Labour Relations in the Production of Cassava in Themes in Political Organization: The Caribs and Their Neighbours A.B.Colson & H.D.Heinen (eds.) Antropologica 59-62. Fundacion La Salle: Caracas.