| Title:
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IN THE SOCIETY OF NATURE
A NATIVE ECOLOGY IN AMAZONIA |
| By: |
Philippe Descola, Meyer Fortes, Edmund Leach |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£110.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521411033 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521411035 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 March, 1994 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology No. 93 |
| Pages: |
396 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
A study of the Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon and their relationship with their environment. |
| Synopsis: |
The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature. |
| Illustrations: |
52 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |