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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes), 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aguaruna Indians--Ethnobotany.

Aguaruna Indians.

Aguaruna Indians--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2007, c1985.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

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

ISBN:

0-8173-8264-X

OCLC:

424523417