Kinship with Monkeys : the Guaja Foragers of Eastern Amazonia.

Kinship with Monkeys : the Guaja Foragers of Eastern Amazonia.

How can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guaja society, ecology, economy, and religion. In Guajá animistic beliefs, all forms of plant and animal life -- especially monkeys -- have souls and are woven into a comprehensive...

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Main Author: Cormier, Loretta A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Series:Historical ecology series.
Subjects:
Guajá Indians > Ethnozoology.
Monkeys > Brazil > Maranh̃ao (State)
Human-animal relationships > Brazil > Maranh̃ao (State)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Human-animal relationships
Monkeys
Brazil > Maranhão
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Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of the Guaja
  • A brief history of new world monkeys
  • Monkey hunting
  • Guaja kinship
  • Animism and the forest siblings
  • Pet monkeys
  • Cosmology and symbolic cannibalism.

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