Palm and the Pleiades - Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia

Klappentext The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; List of maps and plates; Preface; Orthography; Part I. The Rites in Context: 1. Introduction; 2. The Barasana: land and people; Part II. The Rites Described: 3. Fruit House; 4. He House: the main initiation rite; Part III. Explanation and Analysis: 5. The participants; 6. The flutes and trumpets; 7. The gourd of beeswax; 8. Open and closed: the howler monkey and the sloth; 9. Death and rebirth; 10. The Sun and the Moon; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Conclusion; Part V. The Myths; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index; Index of names.

Product details

• Authors: S. Hugh-Jones, Stephen Hugh-Jones
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.1988
• EAN: 9780521358903
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35890-3
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology