A Walk to the River in Amazonia: Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

by Carla Stang

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality - the flow of moment-to-moment existence - and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian people, in two stages: first by observing various aspects of their experience and second by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184545555X
• ISBN13: 9781845455552
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"