Stephen Hugh-Jones

The Palm and the Pleiades

Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia
Herausgeber: Fortes, Meyer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of Northwest Amazonia.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521358903
• ISBN-10: 0521358906
• Artikelnr.: 23526751

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures
List of maps and plates
Preface
Orthography
Part I. The Rites in Context: 1. Introduction
2. The Barasana: land and people
Part II. The Rites Described: 3. Fruit House
4. He House: the main initiation rite
Part III. Explanation and Analysis: 5. The participants
6. The flutes and trumpets
7. The gourd of beeswax
8. Open and closed: the howler monkey and the sloth
9. Death and rebirth
10. The Sun and the Moon
Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Conclusion
Part V. The Myths
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index
Index of names.