The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia
(Book #24 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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When it was first published in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, From the Milk River, by Christine Hugh-Jones, was hailed as setting 'a new standard for South American ethnographers, one to be emulated' (Third World Quarterly). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521358906
ISBN13:9780521358903
Release Date:April 1988
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:356 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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