In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Book Details
Author(s)
Philippe Descola
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0521574676
ISBN-13
9780521574679
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#1,928,488
Category
Nature
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Description
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.
