In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia by Philippe Descola

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology #93

Philippe Descola with Nora Scott (Translator)

396 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ch...

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