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
Main Author: Johnson, Allen W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Machiguenga (Indiens) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Machiguenga (Indiens) > Parente.
Manners and customs
Machiguenga Indians > Social life and customs
Machiguenga cosmology
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Machiguenga Indians > Social life and customs.
Machiguenga cosmology.
Machiguenga Indians > Kinship.
Amazon River Region
Amazon River Region > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
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 (275 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520936294

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