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

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology #93

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Philippe Descola with Nora Scott (Translator)

396 pages hardcover 1986

3 editions

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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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