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Families of the forest : the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon / Allen Johnson

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003

Online-Ressource (xvii, 258 p) : ill ; 24 cm

Englisch

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Among the Matsigenka; 1. Setting and History; 2. Making a Living; 3. Family Life; 4. Society and Politics; 5. Cosmos; Conclusion: A Family Level Society; Glossary; References Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index

Print version: Families of the Forest : The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon

0-520-23242-9 ; 0-520-23241-0

978-0-520-23242-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

F3430.1.M3

305.898/39     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Machiguenga cosmology ; Machiguenga Indians -- Social life and customs ; Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs ; Machiguenga Indians -- Kinship

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The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. Under ordinary circumstances, the largest social units are individual households or small extended-family hamlets. In the absence of such "tribal" features as villages, territorial defense and warfare