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 peop...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books
2009.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798020506719 |
| 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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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857454492 9781282627901 9786612627903 9781845459314 |
