Families of the forest : the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon /
The idea of a family level society assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Hellenistic culture and society ;
43. |
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| Summary: | The idea of a family level society assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520936294 0520936299 0585466033 9780585466033 159734611X 9781597346115 1282762591 9781282762596 9786612762598 6612762594 |