Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated by Catherine V. Howard.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1992.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xx, 407 pages :
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illustrations ;
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24 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Translation of: Araweté.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-391) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1 Cosmology and Society -- 2 Approaching the Arawete -- 3 The Forsaken Ones -- 4 The Frame of Life -- 5 Nurture and Supernature -- 6 Familiar Terms -- 7 Birth, and Copulation, and Death -- 8 Alien Words -- 9 Beings of Becoming -- 10 The Anti-Narcissus -- Appendix 1-A: Arawete Villages in 1981-83 -- Appendix 1-B: List of Historical Arawete Villages -- Appendix 2-A: Arawete Population -- Appendix 2-B: Genealogies -- Appendix 3: Botanical and Zoological Terms (English, Portuguese, Arawete, Latin) -- Appendix 4: Glossary of Arawete Terms.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Translated and revised version of author's 1986 doctoral thesis, one of the most influential monographs in Brazilian ethnology of the last decade. Describes and interprets cosmology and social philosophy of the Araweté, a Tupi-Guarani people of eastern Amazonia, from the perspective of concepts of the person, death and eschatology, divinity, and systems of shamanism and warfare. The theme of divine cannibalism is treated as part of the complex of Tupi-Guarani ritual anthropophagy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.