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In the Society of Nature A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Paperback • 1994 • English • 1. edition

In the Society of Nature A Native Ecology in Amazonia

By Philippe Descola

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The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecolog...Show more

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9780521574679

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1994

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

In the Society of Nature A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Format

Paperback

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