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The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia
Stephen Hugh-Jones
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When it was first published in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, From the Milk River, by Christine Hugh-Jones, was hailed as setting 'a new standard for South American ethnographers, one to be emulated' (Third World Quarterly). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of Northwest ... Read more
When it was first published in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, From the Milk River, by Christine Hugh-Jones, was hailed as setting 'a new standard for South American ethnographers, one to be emulated' (Third World Quarterly). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of Northwest ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521358903
SKU
V9780521358903
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