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

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""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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Michael (Michael F.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1993], ©1986.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
Series:Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Subjects:
Aguaruna Indians > Religion.
Aguaruna magic.
Aguaruna Indians > Ethnobotany.
Aguaruna > Religion.
Magie aguaruna.
Aguaruna > Ethnobotanique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Aguaruna Indians > Ethnobotany
Aguaruna Indians > Religion
Aguaruna magic
Aguaruna (volk)
Etnobotanie.
Mythen.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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