This is a detailed portrait of how an aboriginal tribe of the remote Amazonian region understands the cosmic dimensions of their partnership with the rainforest. Anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff...more details Format:Paperback
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Reichel-Dolmatoff
ISBN:9780415330459
This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future. Chapters include: information on the health and nutritional status of the community discussion of formal education and certain sets of patterned attitudes such as those which refer to work...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:482
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Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
ISBN:9789588156613
The collection of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la Republica de Colombia - one of the most important gold collections in the world - is explored in this anthropological commemoration of goldwork mastery. An essential part of the pre-Colombian world...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:287
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Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
ISBN:9789588156620
The collection of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la Republica de Colombia--one of the most impressive gold collections in the world--is explored in this anthropological commemoration of the goldwork mastery of indigenous peoples. An essential part of the pre-Colombian world...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:287
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Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
ISBN:9780945454083
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff spent much of his life studying the oral culture of the Tukano Indians in the Northwest Amazon, including twenty years simply learning the four key Tukanoan languages. Through his translations and commentaries of the yurupari fertility mythologem and ritual complex...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:352