Kinship with Monkeys : : The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia / / Loretta Cormier.
Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent fifteen months living among the Guajá, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guajá Indians and monkeys. Wh...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Historical Ecology Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 illus |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Orthography
- Introduction
- 1. A Brief History of the Guajá
- 2. A Brief History of New World Monkeys
- 3. Monkey Hunting
- 4. Guajá Kinship
- 5. Animism and the Forest Siblings
- 6. Pet Monkeys
- 7. Cosmology and Symbolic Cannibalism
- Conclusion. Ethnoprimatology in Amazonia and Beyond
- Appendix. Monkeys in the Guajá Habitat
- Notes
- References
- Index