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Blood feud and table mannersarticle 2003 • Boster, James S.
Jivaro • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
Irritated by the Jivaroan practice of spitting, even in the home of a friendly ethnographer, Boster contrives a neo-Hobbesian explanation for it. According to Boster, war, not peace, is the status quo among the Jivaro and that peaceful intentions are...ARUTAM and culture changearticle 2003 • Boster, James S.
Jivaro • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
In this article, Boster reviews the literature on the ARUTAM, the Jivaro soul. He compares the work of Harner (see document nos. 32 and 34), Karsten (document no. 1), and the Salesian missionary Father Pellizaro. Differences among them he attributes ...'Requiem for the omniscient informant'essay 1985 • Boster, James S.
Jivaro • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a study of social correlates in informant variation in the identification of varieties of manioc. Manioc is a Jivaro staple and there are many varieties of manioc. In Boster's ethnoscientific study, he found a variation in the informants' kno...