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Infancy related food taboos among the Shipiboarticle 1981 • Abelove, Joan & Campos, Roberta
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This study examines the topic of food taboos in its social context and the social process in which the taboos are embedded. These taboos occur during illness when native curers often prescribe that specific foods be avoided, and in infancy '…when par...Pre-verbal learning of kinship behavior among Shipibo infants of eastern PeruBook 2000 • Abelove, Joan M.
Shipibo • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This dissertation examines one specific aspect of cultural learning that may occur duing infancy -- kinship behavior, and how it is acquired. The problem posed by the author is whether or not infants learn culturally appropriate patterns of interacti...