From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia

by Christine Hugh-Jones

Book Overview

Since its first publication in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, The Palm and the Pleiades by Stephen Hugh-Jones, has become established as 'the most competent and sophisticated ethnography to date of any South American tropical forest people' (The Times Higher Education Supplement). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an integrated account of a Northwest Amazonian society, which elucidates the structural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521358892
• ISBN13: 9780521358897
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"