Carlos Fausto

Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9781107020061
• ISBN-10: 1107020069
• Artikelnr.: 34540161

Autorenporträt

Carlos Fausto is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Fausto has been conducting fieldwork among Amazonian indigenous peoples since 1988. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Current Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Religion and Society, Science, Mana, L'Homme, Gradhiva and the Journal de la Société des Américanistes. He co-edited Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia (2007) with Michael Heckenberger. He currently collaborates with indigenous people to produce video documentaries.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The matter of time
2. Images of abundance and scarcity
3. Forms through history
4. Why war?
5. The master and the pet
6. Death producing life
7. Gods, axes, and jaguars.