Editing Weaving (section)

===Amazon cultures===
Among the indigenous people of the [[Amazon basin]] densely woven [[Arecaceae|palm]]-[[Bast (biology)|bast]] mosquito netting, or tents, were utilized by the [[Panoan]]s, [[Tupinambá people|Tupinambá]], Western [[Tucano, Brazil|Tucano]], Yameo, Záparoans, and perhaps by the indigenous peoples of the central [[Huallaga River]] basin (Steward 1963:520). Aguaje palm-bast (Mauritia flexuosa, Mauritia minor, or swamp palm) and the frond spears of the Chambira palm ([[Astrocaryum chambira]], A.munbaca, A.tucuma, also known as Cumare or Tucum) have been used for centuries by the [[Urarina]] of the Peruvian [[Amazon Basin|Amazon]] to make cordage, net-bags [[hammock]]s, and to weave [[textile|fabric]]. Among the [[Urarina]], the production of woven palm-fiber goods is imbued with varying degrees of an aesthetic attitude, which draws its authentication from referencing the Urarina's primordial past.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dean |first=Bartholomew |date=2009 |title=Introduction: Power, Belief, Wealth |url=https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/29067/chapter-abstract/241586260?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=academic.oup.com}}</ref> Urarina mythology attests to the centrality of weaving and its role in engendering Urarina society. The post-[[diluvial]] [[creation myth]] accords women's weaving knowledge a pivotal role in Urarina social reproduction.
<ref>Dean, Bartholomew (2009). [http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=DEANXS07 ''Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia'']. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. {{ISBN|978-0-8130-3378-5}}</ref> 
Even though palm-fiber cloth is regularly removed from circulation through [[mortuary]] rites, Urarina palm-fiber wealth is neither completely [[inalienable right|inalienable]], nor [[Fungibility|fungible]] since it is a fundamental medium for the expression of labor and exchange. The circulation of palm-fiber wealth stabilizes a host of social relationships, ranging from marriage and fictive [[kinship]] (''compadrazco'', spiritual compeership) to perpetuating relationships with the deceased.<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1525/mua.1994.18.1.3 |title=Multiple Regimes of Value: Unequal Exchange and the Circulation of Urarina Palm-Fiber Wealth |journal=Museum Anthropology |volume=18 |pages=3–20 |year=1994 |last1=Dean |first1=Bartholomew}}</ref>