ISBN:
9780520936294
,
0520936299
,
0585466033
,
9780585466033
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 258 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Hellenistic culture and society 43
Parallel Title:
Print version Families of the forest
DDC:
305.89839
Keywords:
Machiguenga Indians Kinship
;
Machiguenga Indians Social life and customs
;
Machiguenga cosmology
;
Machiguenga Indians Kinship
;
Machiguenga Indians Social life and customs
;
Machiguenga Indians Social life and customs
;
Machiguenga cosmology
;
Machiguenga Indians Kinship
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Machiguenga cosmology
;
Machiguenga Indians ; Social life and customs
;
Manners and customs
;
Amazon River Region Social life and customs
;
Amazon River Region Social life and customs
;
Amazon River Region Social life and customs
;
Amazon River Region
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. - Description based on print version record
