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Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture.

This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plenderleith, Kristina
Otros Autores: Posey, Darrell A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2002.
Colección:Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Kayap history and culture; The science of the Mbngkre; Contact before contact: typology of post-Colombian interaction with the Northern Kayap of the Amazon; Environmental and social implications of pre- and post-contact situations on Brazilian Indians; Time, space, and the interface of divergent cultures: the Kayap Indians of the Amazon face the future; The Kayap origin of night; The journey to become a shaman: a narrative of sacred transition of the Kayap Indians of Brazil.
  • Ethnobiology and the Kayap ProjectReport from Gorotire: will Kayap traditions survive?; Indigenous knowledge and development: an ideological bridge to the future; Wasps, warriors and fearless men: ethnoentomology of the Kayap Indians of Central Brazil; Hierarchy and utility in a folk biological taxonomic system: patterns in classification of arthropods by the Kayap Indians of Brazil; Additional notes on the classification and.