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In the Society of Nature
The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered …
Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society
The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia as a result of a shift in their form of production from …
Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society
Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary …
Individual and Society in Guiana
The Amerindian peoples of Guiana have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture.