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Kings of the forest : the cultural resilience of Himalayan hunter-gatherers /

In today's world hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book is about one such society living in the monsoon rainforests of weste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fortier, Jana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Encounters
  • Who are the Rautes?
  • Forests as home
  • Monkey's thigh is the shaman's meat
  • Let's go to the forest and eat fruit
  • Economy and society : a complex mix
  • The children of God
  • Cultural resilience : the big picture.