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From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia

By Christine Hugh-Jones

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1988
ISBN
9780521358897, 9780521225441, 9780511558030, 0521358892, 0521225442, 0511558031
LCC
F2270.2.B27 H82
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2254464 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages
324\324
Topic
Education
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Since its first publication in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, The Palm and the Pleiades by Stephen Hugh-Jones, has become established as 'the most competent and sophisticated ethnography to date of any South American tropical forest people' (The Times Higher Education Supplement). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an integrated account of a Northwest Amazonian society, which elucidates the structural models that underlie and unify the domains of kinship, religion, politics and economics. These dynamic models are built from a rich corpus of ethnographic data drawn from extensive field research, and are developed in such a way that, as far as possible, they reproduce an Indian theory of society. Besides enhancing anthropological understanding of a fascinating culture area, the book's highly original approach makes it an important contribution to the general theory of social and cultural structures.

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