Book
From the Milk River: spatial and temporal processes in northwest Amazonia
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge • Published In 1979 • Pages: xx, 302
By: Hugh-Jones, Christine.
Abstract
This is a study of the Barasana Indians living along the Pirá;-paraná river in the Vaupés region of the Colombian northwest Amazon. The material was gathered by the author during her fieldwork among the Barasana from September 1968 to December 1970. After a presentation of some basic ethnographic information on the Barasana (e.g., social structure family and patrilineal groups, religious and secular specialists, kinship and marriage, life cycle, etc.), Hugh-Jones attempts to demonstrate how these cultural aspects of Tucano society '…are ideologically integrated just as they are also inextricably bound together in concrete behavior' (p. 2). In order to accomplish this the author established a number of theoretical models based on analogy and metaphorical usage, connecting cultural data to religious symbolism, myth, and cosmology.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1998
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field Date
- September 1968-December 1970
- Coverage Date
- 1968-1970
- Coverage Place
- Barasana Indians; Vaupés region, Colombian northwest Amazon
- Notes
- Christine Hugh-Jones
- Based on the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1977
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292) and index
- LCCN
- 78073126
- LCSH
- Tukano Indians