Publication

1992 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

101,750 words, Guess

Page Count

407 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing4005485
  • Goodreads3832006

Classifications

  • DDC299/.883
  • LCCF2520.1.A77 C3713 1992

Description

"Translated and revised version of author's 1986 doctoral thesis, one of the most influential monographs in Brazilian ethnology of the last decade. Describes and interprets cosmology and social philosophy of the Araweté, a Tupi-Guarani people of eastern Amazonia, from the perspective of concepts of the person, death and eschatology, divinity, and systems of shamanism and warfare. The theme of divine cannibalism is treated as part of the complex of Tupi-Guarani ritual anthropophagy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Subjects

Places

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