Tsewa's gift : magic and meaning in an Amazonian society / Michael F. Brown.

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Brown, Michael (Michael F.)

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TextSeries: Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiryPublication details: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1993], ©1986.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780817382643
081738264X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tsewa's gift.DDC classification:

306.4 22

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F3430.1.A35 B763 1993eb

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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.

Summary: ""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 cosmology and religion as well as the ethnoecology of hunting and agriculture--with an interlude on sex.""--American Ethnologist.

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"With a new preface."--Cover.

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. (Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.

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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 cosmology and religion as well as the ethnoecology of hunting and agriculture--with an interlude on sex.""--American Ethnologist.

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