Format:
Online-Ressource (526 p)
ISBN:
9780231125253
Series Statement:
Historical Ecology Series
Content:
How can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guaja society, ecology, economy, and religion. In Guajá animistic beliefs, all forms of plant and animal life -- especially monkeys -- have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Orthography; Introduction; 1. A Brief History of the Guajá; 2. A Brief History of New World Monkeys; 3. Monkey Hunting; 4. Guajá Kinship; 5. Animism and the Forest Siblings; 6. Pet Monkeys; 7. Cosmology and Symbolic Cannibalism; Conclusion: Ethnoprimatology in Amazonia and Beyond; Appendix: Monkeys in the Guajá Habitat; References; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231516327
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231125253
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kinship with Monkeys : The Guaja Foragers of Eastern Amazonia
Language:
English
Keywords:
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