In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
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Author(s)Philippe Descola
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521574676
ISBN-139780521574679
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Sales Rank1,928,488
CategoryNature
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.
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