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Amazon town: a study of human life in the tropics / by Charles Wagley ; with a new foreword by Conrad Kottak ; edited, with a new preface and chapter by Richard Pace.
Penn Museum Library F2546 .W16 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology.
- Amazonas (Brazil)--Social life and customs.
- Amazonas (Brazil).
- Amazonas (Brazil)--Social conditions.
- Human ecology--Brazil--Amazonas.
- Manners and customs.
- Social history.
- Brazil--Amazonas.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Annivesary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Charles Wagley (1913-1991) was an American anthropologist specializing in rural Latin America. His principal focus was on Brazil, where he is considered to be one of the founders of contemporary Brazilian anthropology. He made major contributions to the concept of culture areas for Latin America (including a typology of subcultures for the region) and to the notion that race was a cultural construct. He conducted extensive research in the Amazon among indigenous groups and rural Brazilians. Out of the latter came his classic description of life in the Amazon: Amazon Town. With this volume, editor/author Richard Pace has revised and updated Charles Wagley's Amazon Town to coincide with Wagley's 100th birthday in late 2013. New to this Edition, Charles Wagley's photographs of key characters, published here for the first time, Extensive new footnotes-with updated regional and local information-telling the stories of the lives of main characters and their descendants, A new foreword by Conrad Phillip Kottak, A new chapter by Richard Pace on the history of Gurupa since the 1950s, with recent photos Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Problem of Humanity in the Tropics 1
- Chapter 2 An Amazon Community 15
- Chapter 3 Making a Living in the Tropics 66
- Chapter 4 Social Relations in an Amazon Community 106
- Chapter 5 Family Affairs in an Amazon Community 148
- Chapter 6 People Also Play 187
- Chapter 7 From Magic to Science 217
- Chapter 8 A Community in an Underdeveloped Area: The Struggle for Liberation and Sustainable Development 256.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199335251
- 0199335257
- OCLC:
- 842316514
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