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In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Descola, Philippe (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Descola, Philippe (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
The author documents the Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.
396 pages, 52 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 29, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521574679 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 396 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 150 × 23 mm · 606 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Scott, Nora |