A walk to the river in Amazonia : ordinary reality for the Mehinaku Indians / Carla Stang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stang, Carla, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mehinacu Indians--Psychology.

Mehinacu Indians.

Mehinacu Indians--Attitudes.

Mehinacu Indians--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality - the flow of moment-to-moment existence - and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as 'cosmology,' 'sociality,' 'gender,' and the 'everyday' are under

Contents:

My walk

Configurations in Mehinaku experience

Dynamic aspects in Mehinaku experience

Experience of Mehinaku experience

Experience of the Mehinaku social world

Some conclusions

Her walk.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-292-2

0-85745-449-8

1-282-62790-2

9786612627903

1-84545-931-8

OCLC:

670411016