Families of the forest : the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon /

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The idea of a family level society assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Allen W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:Hellenistic culture and society ; 43.
Subjects:
Machiguenga Indians > Kinship.
Machiguenga cosmology.
Machiguenga Indians > Social life and customs.
Machiguenga > Parenté.
Machiguenga > Mœurs et coutumes.
Cosmologie machiguenga.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Machiguenga cosmology
Machiguenga Indians > Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Amazon River Region > Social life and customs.
Amazon River Region
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The idea of a family level society assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.
ISBN:9780520936294
0520936299
0585466033
9780585466033
159734611X
9781597346115
1282762591
9781282762596
9786612762598
6612762594

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