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Tsewa's gift : magic and meaning in an Amazonian society /

""An outstanding and innovative study on hunting, gardening, and love magic among the Aguaruna. ... [It is] both highly useful ethnographically and an important contribution to the understanding of how a primitive culture conceptualizes its transactions with nature. The book touches on cos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Michael (Michael F.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1993], ©1986.
Edición:Pbk. ed.
Colección:Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Illustrations and Plates; Tables; Orthographic Note; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; Chapter 1: Alto Mayo; Chapter 2: Seen and Unseen; Chapter 3: The Uses of Affinity; Chapter 4: The Garden's Children; Chapter 5: A Technology of Sentiment; Chapter 6: Working Metaphors; Afterword; Appendix 1: Sources of Anen; Appendix 2: Notes on the Collection, Transcription, and Translation of Aguaruna Anen; Notes; Bibliography; Index.