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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Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Title page-A Walk to the River in Amazonia; Contents; Figures; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Pronouncing Mehinaku Words; Glossary; Introduction; Chapter 1-My Walk; Chapter 2-Configurations in Mehinaku Experience; Chapter 3-Dynamic Aspects in Mehinaku Experience; Chapter 4-Experience of Mehinaku Experience; Chapter 5-Experience of the Mehinaku Social World; Chapter 6-Some Conclusions; Chapter 7-Her Walk; Cross References from the Description to Chapters 2-5; Bibliography; Index.