Makuna
Title | Makuna PDF eBook |
Author | Kaj Århem |
Publisher | Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Photography |
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In stunning, full-color photographs and evocative text, Samper and Arhem celebrate the natural surroundings, domestic life, and vibrant rituals of a rain-forest people whose future is being jeopardized by outsiders' destruction of their lands.
Makuna Social Organization
Title | Makuna Social Organization PDF eBook |
Author | Kaj Århem |
Publisher | Academiae Ubsaliensis |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Cubeo Hehnewa Religious Thought
Title | Cubeo Hehnewa Religious Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Irving Goldman |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Amazon River Region |
ISBN | 9780231130202 |
The societies of Vaupes region are among the most documented indigenous cultures, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict, and students and scholars are eagerly awaiting the publication of this posthumous work by the man widely regarded as the preeminent authority on Vaupes Amazonian societies. This definitive account of the religion of a significant Amazonian culture was substantially completed before Irving Goldman's death, but Peter Wilson has edited it for publication, providing an introduction to Goldman's work.
Nature and Society
Title | Nature and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Descola |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2003-12-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134827156 |
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.
Locality and Belonging
Title | Locality and Belonging PDF eBook |
Author | Nadia Lovell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2003-12-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134739796 |
Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, Amazonia, Indonesia and West Africa. Among the themes explored are: * space, memory and ethnicity * the mnemonic use of objects * mythologies of football and history * use of 'natural features' of the environment * nationhood and post-colonial identity making.
The Fish People
Title | The Fish People PDF eBook |
Author | Jean E. Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1983-09-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521278225 |
The Bará, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses Bar· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.
Trekking Through History
Title | Trekking Through History PDF eBook |
Author | Laura M. Rival |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231118457 |
Rival presents a comprehensive academic study of the Huaorani, correcting distorted portrayals of them by journalists, missionaries, environmentalists, and tour guides as 'Ecuador's last savages'.