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The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia

The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia

Hugh-Jones, Stephen
Fortes, Meyer
Hugh-Jones, S.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Book 24

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0521358906
ISBN13: 9780521358903
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 31 1988
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 Amazonia. The book is also an exercise in the anthropological interpretation of ritual, myth and religious symbolism from a structuralist point of view.

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