| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. |
| Summary |
The idea of a family level society assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Introduction: Among the Matsigenka; 1 Setting and History; 2 Making a Living; 3 Family Life; 4 Society and Politics; 5 Cosmos; Conclusion: A Family Level Society; Glossary; References Cited; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Machiguenga Indians -- Kinship.
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Machiguenga Indians. |
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Kinship. |
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Machiguenga cosmology.
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Machiguenga cosmology. |
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Machiguenga Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Machiguenga Indians -- Social life and customs. |
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Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs.
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Amazon River Region. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, Allen W. Families of the forest. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520232410 (DLC) 2002018748 (OCoLC)51569711 |
| ISBN |
9780520936294 (electronic book) |
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0520936299 (electronic book) |
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0585466033 (electronic book) |
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9780585466033 (electronic book) |
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159734611X |
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9781597346115 |
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0520232410 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520232419 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520232429 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520232426 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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