Recent books on South American anthropology [2 review articles]

2024/07/10 by Henley, Paul, Heelas, Richard

paper · doi:10.5287/ora-6ryameqxb

Abstract

Books discussed: Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon Christine Hugh-Jones, From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia Stephen Hugh-Jones, The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia David Maybury-Lewis (ed.), Dialectical Societies: The Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil

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