In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Philippe Descola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
August 29 1996
EAN: 9780521574679
ISBN: 0521574676

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Synopsis: 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 characteristics of society.