A Walk to the River in Amazonia : Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians.
Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality the flow of moment-to-moment existence and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2009.
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| Summary: | Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality the flow of moment-to-moment existence and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as 'cosmology, ' 'sociality, ' 'gender, ' and the 'everyday' are under. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845459314 1845459318 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |