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ISBN: 0199241961

ISBN13: 9780199241965

An Amazonian Myth and Its History

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Uniting the ethnographic data collected by the fieldwork methods invented by Malinowski with Levi-Strauss's analyses of the relations between myth and time, this book analyzes a century of social transformation of the indigenous Piro people of Peruvian Amazonia. It is an important contribution to anthropological debates on the nature of history and social change, as well as on neglected areas such as myth, visual art, and the methodological issues...

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Cultural Folklore & Mythology History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences

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