801055261     

422414972                        

---

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

Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2003

Online Ressource (xvii, 258 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Families of the forest

978-0-520-93629-4 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-93629-9 (electronic bk.); 0-585-46603-3 (electronic bk.); 978-0-585-46603-3 ( : electronic bk.)

0-520-23241-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-23242-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-23241-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-23242-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 52842783     

OCoLC: 52842783 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

F3430.1.M3

305.89839 ; 305.898/39     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC031000 ; bisacsh: SOC020000 ; bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC 031000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010 ; bisacsh: SOC 020000

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

Electronic books ; Amazon River Region ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Machiguenga cosmology ; Machiguenga Indians ; Social life and customs ; Manners and customs

The idea of a family level society assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's 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