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Amazon feather-art is well recognized as a main characteristic of the low-lands cultures, and beyond, of all amerindian civilization; but it remains almost totally left out by anthropology. Our hypothesis is that the disinterest in these objects is not only empirical (the lack of ethnographic data) but reveals a failure both to their ornamental function and aesthetic singularity. What is a proper feather-art? Our western aesthetic models, based on the distinction of form and colour, of surface and volume, on the primate of inscription (the figure-background opposition) make it impossible to understand the singularity of a feather-adornment. So the issue of this contribution is to set up the very unity of its object, beyond the mere unity of the material. Adapted from the source document.

The effort to unite the economies of the western hemisphere into a single free trade agreement was initiated at the Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994. The timetable established was for completion of the agreement by 2005. This article analyzes the efforts that have arisen over the last six years in opposition to the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Opposition coming from both governments in Latin America and civil society throughout the hemisphere have threatened to derail the whole process. This article details the political arguments that have been mounted against the FTAA and also provides an analysis of the myriad tactics employed by the anti-FTAA movement.