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Tsewa's Gift
"A well-written and carefully crafted account of Aguaruna magic and its practical applications [that] diverges from more traditional approaches by focusing not only on the symbolic realm of magic but also on the instrumental intent." --American Anthropologist
Historia de la antropología indigenista
Este libro presenta al lector muchas paginas olvidadas en la mayoria de los manuales de historia de la antropologia. En el se recoge, como se lee en la introduccion, la reflexion sistematica sobre las sociedades indigenas de Mexico y del Peru, hecha por los misioneros, los politicos, los historiadores, los ensayistas y los antropologos desde la llegada de los espanoles hasta la actualidad. En este periodo de casi cinco siglos pueden senalarse dos epocas privilegiadas para tal reflexion.
Upriver
In this story of one man’s encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajún—renowned for pugnacity and fierce independence—use hard-won political savvy, literacy, and digital skills to live life on their own terms, against long odds.
Native Blowguns and National Guns
The Achuar are still generally considered one of the most isolated and, except the Huambisa, possibly least known sub-groups of the Jivaroan cultural and linguistic family. On the basis of an uninterrupted research, conducted from October, 1980 through September, 1983 among the Achuar Jivaroans of the Peruvian Upper Amazon, the processes of asymmetrical interdependence between this native population and the expansionist national-multinational fronts are explored with particular attention to the dialectics and strategies of power. A brief ethnohistorical and ecological account, along with an ethnographic synopsis of this group, is sketched to provide background and context. A theory of praxis...
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