In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Philippe Descola (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
17 March 1994
Pages
396
ISBN
9780521411035

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Philippe Descola (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.

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