Kinship with Monkeys : : The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Cormier, Loretta,
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

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