| In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia Contributor(s): Descola, Philippe (Author), Scott, Nora (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0511808577 ISBN-13: 9780511808579 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $178.50 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical |
| Dewey: 304.2 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. |