George Mentore

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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 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" 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." Themes in Political Organization: The Caribs and Their Neighbours (eds.) A.B.Colson & H.D.Heinen, Antropologica 59-62. Fundacion La Salle: Caracas.