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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:
- 9786612627903
- 9780857454492
- 0857454498
- 9781282627901
- 1282627902
- 9781845459314
- 1845459318
- OCLC:
- 670411016
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