ISBN:
0520232429
,
0520232410
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 258 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Families of the Forest : The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
DDC:
305.898/39
Keywords:
Machiguenga cosmology
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Machiguenga Indians Social life and customs
;
Machiguenga Indians Kinship
;
Historical fiction ; History and criticism
;
Jews ; History ; 586 B.C.-70 A.D
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Jews ; Identity ; History ; To 1500
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Third Book of Maccabees ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Electronic books
;
Amazon River Region Social life and customs
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520232419.001.0001
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