Kinship with Monkeys : The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia /

Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent fifteen months living among the Guajá, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guajá Indians and monkeys. Wh...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cormier, Loretta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2003]
Colección:Historical Ecology Series
Temas:
Guajá Indians > Ethnozoology.
Human-animal relationships - Brazil - Maranhao (State).
Human-animal relationships > Brazil > Maranh̃ao (State).
Monkeys > Brazil > Maranh̃ao (State).
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Orthography
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Brief History of the Guajá
  • 2. A Brief History of New World Monkeys
  • 3. Monkey Hunting
  • 4. Guajá Kinship
  • 5. Animism and the Forest Siblings
  • 6. Pet Monkeys
  • 7. Cosmology and Symbolic Cannibalism
  • Conclusion. Ethnoprimatology in Amazonia and Beyond
  • Appendix. Monkeys in the Guajá Habitat
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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